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title: "43 U.S.C. § 451g"
description: "Preferences; veterans; timely applicants"
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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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citation: "43 U.S.C. § 451g"
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# 43 U.S.C. § 451g - Preferences; veterans; timely applicants
## Text
Where there are two or more timely applicants for a farm unit on a particular project or division thereof under the provisions of this subchapter, one or more of whom is an ex-serviceman who would be entitled under the applicable statutes to a preference in making entry of farm units on such project or division, the ex-serviceman, or one of them, shall have a preference in making such exchange. Any timely applicant for an exchange under the provisions of this subchapter shall be entitled to preference over any other applicant for a farm unit on the same project or division thereof.
(Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 8, 67 Stat. 568.)