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<br />- O'~' "-'3 <br />.... ..Iv J <br /> <br />receive water unless and until the puror-aso price <br />involved in such ~ale is approved by the Seoretary <br />of the Interior ~d that upon proof of fraudulent <br />representation as to the true oonsideration involved <br />in such sales the Seorgtary of the Interior is <br />authorized to oa~oel the water right attaohing to <br />the land involved in suoh fraudulent sales:..." <br /> <br />Three reolo.mation projects have been speoifioally exempted frOlll. the <br /> <br />land lL-n.i.t.ation provisions. These are the Colorado-Big Thompson (Act of <br /> <br />June 161 1938, 52 ,stat. 764, 43 USCA 386) and the ~{a8hoe Cou.'"lty ..later Con... <br /> <br />servatlon District and ?ershL~g Co~ty Water Conservation District, both in <br /> <br />Nevada (sea Act of ~ovembar 29. 1940, 54 stat. 1219). <br /> <br />The applioation and enforoement ot the land limitation provlsloilS has <br /> <br />been neither unifor:n nor consistent. The solicitor of the Interior Dopart- <br /> <br />ment has ruled that !n o01:1'":l.unity property st~.;os a !lusba.nd or wife my hold <br /> <br />320 aeros without violatin; these stntutes (see ~e~orandum opinion M. 34172 <br /> <br />dated AUGust 21, 1945). Thus a. distinct advantage acoruos to landho1dars ir:. <br /> <br />tho eight roola~tio~ states which reoognizo oommunity proper~/. Colorado <br /> <br />is one of t~e nine reclarnatio~ states which are discri~nnted against because <br /> <br />they do not have con~unity property laws. <br /> <br />In 1946 the Buroau of Reolama.tio~ published a pamphlet entitled <br /> <br />lILn~downorship Survey on Foderal Reola:=1!l.tior. Projeots." thder the Bureau's <br /> <br />own i~terpretntio~ of the laws ~~d statistioal methods it is thero disolosed <br /> <br />that i~ 1946 project water was deliverod to a total of 165,145 acres. of la::td <br /> <br />held i~ violation of tho land limit~tion provisions. This figure would ~ave <br /> <br /> <br />bean substa:ltially greater !tad the Burea.u not elL~inntod 117aU.,LIO acres. <br /> <br />held 1:1. sL:~lo o;merships of not more than 160 acros per individual ow:wr, <br /> <br />allo\'li!lG up to 160 !l.ores each for husb.:l:1c D..."1d wife." The alimi~atlo:l of this <br /> <br />acreaf;c is qucstio:1ab1e becc.usc t1w!"c is :lot 070.:.1 0.:1 opi:1.ion of tho solicitor <br /> <br />rulLl::; tha.t n holc.L~~ of 320 :lorGS by hus'::Jand a.."ld wifo is perr.l.lssib1o i:l a <br /> <br />nc~-community property state. <br /> <br />- 14 - <br />