---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 547"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "547"
heading: "Patent to desert-land entryman"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/547"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter XIV — Patents and Final Water-Right Certificates"
---

# §547. Patent to desert-land entryman


Any desert-land entryman whose desert-land entry has been embraced within the exterior limits of any land withdrawal or irrigation [project](/usc/43/485a.md?p=c) under the Act of June 17, 1902, known as the reclamation Act, and who may have obtained a water supply for the land embraced in any such desert-land entry from the [reclamation project](/usc/43/373c.md?p=2) by the purchase of a water-right certificate, may at any time after having complied with the provisions of the law applicable to such lands and upon proof of the cultivation and reclamation of the land to the extent required by the reclamation Act for homestead entrymen, submit proof of such compliance, which proof, if found regular and satisfactory, shall entitle the entryman to a patent and a final water-right certificate under the same terms and conditions as required of homestead entrymen under the Act entitled “An Act providing for patents on reclamation entries, and for other purposes, approved August ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve [[43 U.S.C. 541](/usc/43/541.md) et seq.].”[^1]


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The closing quotation marks probably should follow “purposes”.

## Source credit

(Aug. 26, 1912, ch. 408, § 1, 37 Stat. 610.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Act of June 17, 1902, known as the reclamation Act, referred to in text, is act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.

The Act entitled “An Act providing for patents on reclamation entries, and for other purposes”, referred to in text, is act Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, 37 Stat. 265, which is classified generally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

### Codification

This section was not enacted as part of act Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, 37 Stat. 265, which comprises this subchapter.