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43 USC § 441 - Assignment of entries generally 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s441"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 441 - Assignment of entries generally"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "441"
section_name: "Assignment of entries generally"
chapter_number: 12
chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
subchapter_number: "VI"
subchapter_name: "WATER RIGHT APPLICATIONS AND LAND ENTRIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 23, 1910, ch. 357, 36 Stat. 592; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)"
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# § 441. Assignment of entries generally

June 17, 1902June 17, 1902*Provided*

From and after the filing with the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate of satisfactory proof of residence, improvement, and cultivation for the five years required by law, persons who have, or shall make, homestead entries within reclamation projects under the provisions of the Act of , may assign such entries, or any part thereof, to other persons, and such assignees, upon submitting proof of the reclamation of the lands and upon payment of the charges apportioned against the same as provided in the said Act of , may receive from the United States a patent for the lands: , That all assignments made under the provisions of this section shall be subject to the limitations, charges, terms, and conditions of the reclamation Act.

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**Source Credit**: (June 23, 1910, ch. 357, 36 Stat. 592; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Act of , referred to in text, is , , popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under  and Tables.

The reclamation Act, referred to in text, probably means act , see note above.

## Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

“Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate” substituted in text for “Commissioner of the General Land Office” on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out as a note under .