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title: "43 U.S.C. § 443"
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title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
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chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
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# 43 U.S.C. § 443 - Limitation of amount of land holdable under assignment of entry

## Text

No person shall hold by assignment more than one farm unit prior to final payment of all charges for all the land held by him subject to the reclamation law, except operation and maintenance charges not then due.

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 13, 38 Stat. 690.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

References in TextThe reclamation law, referred to in text, is defined in section 472 of this title.