[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
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[CITE: 43CFR2523.1]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2520_DESERT-LAND ENTRIES--Table of Contents
 
                          Subpart 2523_Payments
 
Sec. 2523.1  Collection of purchase money and fees; issuance of final 
certificate.


    (a) At the time of making final proof the claimant must pay to the 
authorizing officer the sum of $1 per acre for each acre of land upon 
which proof is made. This, together with the 25 cents per acre paid at 
the time of making the original entry, will amount to $1.25 per acre, 
which is the price to be paid for all lands entered under the desert 
land law.
    (b) If the entryman is dead and proof is made by anyone for the 
heirs, no will being suggested in the record, the final certificate 
should issue to the heirs generally, without naming them; if by anyone 
for the heirs or devisees, final certificate should issue in like manner 
to the heirs or devisees.
    (c) When final proof is made on an entry made prior to the Act of 
March 28, 1908 (35 Stat. 52; 43 U.S.C. 324, 326, 333), for unsurveyed 
land, if the land is still unsurveyed and such proof is satisfactory, 
the authorizing officer will approve same without collecting the final 
payment of $1 an acre and without issuing final certificate. Fees for 
reducing the final-proof testimony to writing should be collected and 
receipt issued therefor if the proof is taken before the authorizing 
officer. As soon as the plat or plats of any township or townships 
previously unsurveyed are filed in the proper office the authorizing 
office will examine his records for the purpose of determining, if 
possible, whether or not, prior to the passage of the Act of March 28, 
1908, any desert-land entry of unsurveyed land was allowed in the 
locality covered by the said plats; and if any such entries are found 
intact, he will call upon the claimants thereof to file a statement of 
adjustment, corroborated by two witnesses, giving the correct 
description, in accordance with the survey of the lands embraced in 
their respective entries.
    (d) If the final proof has been made upon any desert-land entry so 
adjusted and the records show that such proof has been found 
satisfactory and no conflicts or other objections are apparent, the 
manager will allow claimant 60 days within which to make final payment 
for the land.

[35 FR 9588, June 13, 1970]