Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 43 — Suspended Entries and Claims; Patents
§ 2502. Adjudications as to suspended entries; approval
Statutory text
Every such adjudication shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior and shall operate only to divest the United States of the title to the land embraced thereby, without prejudice to the rights of conflicting claimants.
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. § 2451
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 2502
R.S. § 2451
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 2451
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 1162 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
R.S. § 2451 derived from acts Aug. 3, 1846, ch. 78, § 1, 9 Stat. 51; Feb. 27, 1877. ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 244.
Credits
1877–1922 · 3 acts
- R.S. § 2451
- 1877Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 244
- 1922Sept. 20, 1922, ch. 350, 42 Stat. 858.
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(R.S. § 2451; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1, 19 Stat. 244; Sept. 20, 1922, ch. 350, 42 Stat. 858.)