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Show 618 fullest possible use of electric light and power on farms" within reasonable distance of its transmission lines.665 As to projects covered by the Bonneville Project and the Fort Peck Project Acts, it is directed that such transmission facilities be provided and maintained as are necessary or appropriate to transmit electric energy to "existing and potential markets" as well as to make interconnections "for the purpose of inter- change of electric energy."666 Acreage Limitations.-In connection with the review of Reclamation Law, this subject has been discussed in detail.667 Several aspects of the relevant legislation merit comment here. Under the 1902 Reclamation Act, irrigable land holdings on projects, whether entered public lands or private lands, were limited to 160 acres for any one entryman or landowner.668 But the law has been construed as permitting 320 irrigable acres to be held jointly by man and wife.669 And it was early held that an owner of more than 160 acres of privately owned land could transfer the excess to his wife or minor children, enabling each of them to receive project water.670 Moreover, the Act's pro- visions do not preclude combined farming endeavor by any number of owners, members of a family or otherwise, so long as each owns no more than the acreage limit for any one owner. In 1938 and 1940 Congress, by special legislation, exempted three projects from the excess-land limitations.671 By other 1940 legislation repayment contracts were required for water conservation and utilization projects, small reclamation proj- ects, whereby the Secretary of the Interior shall establish farm units of a size sufficient "for the support of a family on the lands to be irrigated."672 Such a contract must also require 868 § 10, 48 Stat. 64, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 831L 468 Act of August 20,1937, § 2(b), 50 Stat. 731, 732, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 832a(b) ; Act of May 18, 1938, § 2(b), 52 Stat. 403, 404,16 U. S. O. 833a (b). 667 See supra, pp. 217-237. 668 Act of June 17, 1902, §§ 3, 5, 32 Stat. 388, 389, as amended, 43 U. S. C. 434, 431. 699 See supra, pp. 222-223. 670 Instructions of the Secretary of the Interior, 32 L. D. 647 (1904). 671See supra, n. 499, pp. 235-236. 672 Act of October 14, 1940, §4(c)(5), 54 Stat. 1119, 1122, 16 U. S. C. 590^-2(c) (5). |