AZ vs. CA:19 California Exhibits, Vol. XIX; Nos. 4000-4044

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and shall also show the source of the water to be used for irrigation and reclamation. Persons entering or proposing to enter se'parate sections, or fractional parts of sections, of desert lands, may associate together in the construction of canals and ditches for irrigating and reclaiming all of said tracts, and may file a joint map or maps showing their plan of internal improvements. (Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 107, § ^, as added Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 2, 26 Stat. 1096.) § 328. EXPENDITURES AND CULTIVATION REQUIRED. No land shall be patented to any person under sections 321--323, 324, 325 and 327--329 of this title unless he or his assignors shall have expended in the necessary irrigation, reclamation, and cultivation thereof, by means of main canals and branch ditches, and in permanent improvements upon the land, and in the purchase of water rights for the irrigation of the same, at least $3 per acre of whole tract reclaimed and patented in the manner following: Within one year after making entry for such tract of desert land as aforesaid the party so entering shall expend not less than $1 per acre for the purposes aforesaid; and he shall in like manner expend the sum of $1 per acre during the second and also during the third year thereafter, until the full sum of $3 per acre is so expended. Said party shall file during each year with the officer designated by the Secretary of the Interior proof, by the affidavits of two or more credible witnesses, that the full sum of $1 per acre has been expended in such necessary improvements during such year, and the manner in which expended, and at the expiration 1-6