Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 43 — Suspended Entries and Claims; Patents
§ 2501. “Suspended entries of public lands” and “suspended preemption land claims”
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior, or such officer as he may designate, is authorized to decide upon principles of equity and justice, as recognized in courts of equity, and in accordance with regulations to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, consistently with such principles, all cases of suspended entries of public lands and of suspended preemption land claims, and to adjudge in what cases patents shall issue upon the same.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
R.S. § 2450
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 2501
R.S. § 2450
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 2450
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 1161 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
R.S. § 2450 derived from acts Aug. 3, 1846, ch. 78, § 1, 9 Stat. 51; Mar. 3, 1853, ch. 152, § 1, 10 Stat. 258; June 26, 1856, ch. 47, 11 Stat. 22; June 1, 1874, ch. 200, 18 Stat. 50; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 244.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For 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. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title.
“Secretary of the Interior, or such officer as he may designate,” substituted for “Commissioner of the General Land Office” on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.
Credits
1877–1946 · 4 acts
- R.S. § 2450
- 1877Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 244
- 1922Sept. 20, 1922, ch. 350, 42 Stat. 857
- 19461946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.
Show as published
(R.S. § 2450; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 244; Sept. 20, 1922, ch. 350, 42 Stat. 857; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)