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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 9 — Desert-Land Entries

§ 323. Application to certain States

Statutory text

Sections 321 to 323, 325, and 327 to 329 of this title shall only apply to and take effect in the States of California, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, and North and South Dakota.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 44–107 · 19 Stat. 377

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 323

    Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 107, §§ 3, 8, 19 Stat. 377

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 107, §§ 3, 8, 19 Stat. 377

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is from the first clause of section 3 of act , and the first clause of section 8 of act , as added by act .

The second clauses of section 3 and 8 of act , are incorporated in the second paragraph of section 322 and section 325 of this title, respectively.

The first clause of section 3 of act , provided that “this act shall only apply to and take effect in the States of California, Oregon and Nevada, and the Territories of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico and Dakota”.

The first clause of section 8 of act , as added by act , provided for the inclusion of Colorado.

The Territories of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico and Dakota have become States since the enactment of act , the Territory of Dakota being divided, to form the States of North and South Dakota.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act

Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title.

Credits

1877–1921 · 3 acts
  1. 1877Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 107, §§ 3, 8, 19 Stat. 377
  2. 1891Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 2, 26 Stat. 1097
  3. 1921Jan. 6, 1921, ch. 12, 41 Stat. 1086.
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(Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 107, §§ 3, 8, 19 Stat. 377; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 2, 26 Stat. 1097; Jan. 6, 1921, ch. 12, 41 Stat. 1086.)

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