2012 US Code
Title 43 - Public Lands
Chapter 20 - RESERVATIONS AND GRANTS TO STATES FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES (§§ 851 - 873)
Section 861 - Preference right of selection granted certain Western States; bona fide settlers
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS CHAPTER 20 - RESERVATIONS AND GRANTS TO STATES FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES Sec. 861 - Preference right of selection granted certain Western States; bona fide settlers |
| Contains | section 861 |
| Date | 2012 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 15, 2013 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 208, 27 Stat. 592. |
| Statutes at Large References | 25 Stat. 676 27 Stat. 592 |
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The States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington shall have a preference right over any person or corporation to select lands subject to entry by said States by the Act of Congress approved February 22, 1889, for a period of sixty days after lands have been surveyed and duly declared to be subject to selection and entry under the general land laws of the United States.
Such preference right shall not accrue against bona fide homestead or preemption settlers on any of said lands at the date of filing of the plat of survey of any township in any local land office of said States.
(Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 208, 27 Stat. 592.)
References in TextAct February 22, 1889, referred to in text, is act Feb. 22, 1889, ch. 180, 25 Stat. 676. Provisions relating to admission of the enumerated States into the Union are not classified to the Code.
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