43 USC § 644 - Preference right to entryman under State laws

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s644"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 644 - Preference right to entryman under State laws"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "644"
section_name: "Preference right to entryman under State laws"
chapter_number: 14
chapter_name: "GRANTS OF DESERT LANDS TO STATES FOR RECLAMATION"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 74, 41 Stat. 407.)"
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# 1 Preference right to entryman under State laws

See References in Text note below.

[^1]section 641 of this titlesection 641 of this title*Provided*

The Secretary of the Interior, when restoring to the public domain lands that have been segregated to a State under sections 641, 642 and 643  of this title is authorized, in his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may establish to allow for not exceeding ninety days to any entryman under  a preference right of entry under applicable land laws of any of such lands which such person had entered under and pursuant to the State laws providing for the administration of the grant under  and upon which such person had established actual bona fide residence or had made substantial and permanent improvements: , That each entryman shall be entitled to a credit as residence upon his new homestead entry allowed hereunder of the time that he has actually lived upon the claim as a bona fide resident thereof.

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**Source Credit**: (Feb. 14, 1920, ch. 74, 41 Stat. 407.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

, referred to in text, was repealed by , , .