Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

Any citizen of the United States, or
any person having declared his intention to become a citizen of the United
States (excepting married women), over the age of twenty-one (21) years, may
make application under oath to the department of water resources to enter any
of said land in an amount not to exceed one hundred sixty (160) acres for any
one (1) person; and such application shall set forth that the person desiring
to make such entry does so for the purpose of actual reclamation, cultivation
and settlement in accordance with the act of congress and the laws of this
state relating thereto, and that the applicant has never received the benefit
of the provisions of any Carey Act law to an amount greater than one hundred
sixty (160) acres, including the number of acres specified in the application
under consideration. Such application must be accompanied by a certified copy
of a contract for the water rights, made and entered into by the person making
the application with the district, which has been authorized by the department
to furnish water for the reclamation of said lands; and if said applicant has
at any previous time entered lands under the provisions of any Carey Act law,
he shall so state in the application, together with description, date of entry
and location of said land. The department shall thereupon file in its office
the application and papers relating thereto, and, if allowed, issue a
certificate of location to the applicant.
All applications for entry shall be accompanied by a payment of
twenty-five cents (25¢) per acre, which shall be paid as a partial payment on
the land if the application is allowed; and all certificates when issued shall
be recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose. If the application is not
allowed, the twenty-five cents (25¢) per acre accompanying it shall be
refunded to the applicant. The department of water resources shall dispose of
all lands accepted by the state under the provisions of this chapter at a
uniform price of fifty cents (50¢) per acre, half to be paid at the time of
entry and the remainder at the time of making final proof by the settler.

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