2017 US Code
Title 43 - Public Lands
Chapter 23 - Grants of Swamp and Overflowed Lands
Sec. 986 - Selection of lands confirmed
43 U.S.C. § 986 (2017) |
§986. Selection of lands confirmed |
All land selected and reported to the General Land Office as swamp and overflowed land by the several States entitled to the provisions of said Act of September 28, 1850, prior to March 3, A.D. 1857, are confirmed to said States respectively so far as the same remained vacant and unappropriated and not interfered with by an actual settlement under any law of the United States. |
(R.S. §2484.) |
CODIFICATION
R.S. §2484 derived from act Mar. 3, 1857, ch. 117, 11 Stat. 251. TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONSFor transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title. General Land Office and office of Commissioner of General Land Office abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100. Functions of former transferred to Bureau of Land Management, and functions of latter transferred to Secretary of the Interior or that officer as he may designate, by that Plan. See section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. |
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Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS CHAPTER 23 - GRANTS OF SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS Sec. 986 - Selection of lands confirmed |
section 986 |
2017 |
January 12, 2018 |
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11 Stat. 251 60 Stat. 1100 64 Stat. 1262 |