Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 21 — Grants in Aid of Railroads and Wagon Roads
§ 885. Union Pacific Railroad lands
Statutory text
The costs of surveying, selecting, and conveying lands granted to the Union Pacific Railroad Company shall become due and payable at and on the demand therefor made by the Secretary of the Interior as provided in section 883 of this title, and nothing in sections 882 to 885 of this title shall be construed or taken in any wise to affect or impair the right of Congress at any time further to alter, amend, or repeal the Act of , chapter 216, as in the opinion of Congress, justice or the public welfare may require, or to impair or waive any right or remedy in the premises existing on , in favor of the United States. Sections 882 to 885 of this title shall be subject to alteration, amendment, or repeal.
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 § 4 · 24 Stat. 143
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 885
(July 10, 1886, ch. 764, § 4, 24 Stat. 143.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 10, 1886, ch. 764, § 4, 24 Stat. 143.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. That section twenty-one of chapter two hundred and sixteen, Costs of surveying, etc., lands granted to Union Pacific Railway Company payable on demand of Secretary of the Interior. Vol. 13, p. 365. Right to amend, etc. reserved. approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby so amended as that the costs of surveying, selecting and conveying therein required to be paid shall become due and payable at and on the demand therefor made by the Secretary of the Interior as provided in section two of this act, and nothing in this act shall be construed or taken in any wise to affect or impair the right of Congress at any time hereafter further to alter, amend, or repeal the said act, as in the opinion of Congress, justice or the public welfare may require, or to impair or waive any right or remedy in the premises now existing in favor of the United States. This act shall be subject to alteration, amendment, or repeal.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
Act of , referred to in text, is act July 2, 1864, ch. 216, 13 Stat. 357, which enacted section 942–3 of this title and first paragraph of former section 83 of Title 45, Railroads. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Credits
(July 10, 1886, ch. 764, § 4, 24 Stat. 143.)