---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 446"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "446"
heading: "Right to make entry on relinquishment of former entry under land laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/446"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter VI — Water Right Applications and Land Entries"
---

# §446. Right to make entry on relinquishment of former entry under land laws


Wherever the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of the reclamation Act, shall acquire by relinquishment lands covered by a bona fide unperfected entry under the land laws of the United States, the entryman upon such tract may make another and additional entry, as though the entry thus relinquished had not been made.


## Source credit

(June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 2, 34 Stat. 519.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The reclamation Act, referred to in text, is identified in section 434 of this title.