Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 21 — Grants in Aid of Railroads and Wagon Roads
§ 884. Right of forfeiture of railroad grants not affected
Statutory text
Sections 882 to 885 of this title shall not affect the right of the Government to declare or enforce a forfeiture of any lands so granted; but all the rights of the United States to said lands or to any interest therein shall be and remain as if said sections had not passed, except as to the lien mentioned in section 882 of this title.
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.
Pub. L. 49–764 § 3 · 24 Stat. 143
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 884
(July 10, 1886, ch. 764, § 3, 24 Stat. 143.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 10, 1886, ch. 764, § 3, 24 Stat. 143.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That this act shall not affect the right of the Government to Right of Government to forfeit not affected. declare or enforce a forfeiture of any lands so granted; but all the rights of the United States to said lands or to any interest therein shall be and remain as if this act had not passed, except as to the lien mentioned in the first section hereof.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(July 10, 1886, ch. 764, § 3, 24 Stat. 143.)