Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 21 — Grants in Aid of Railroads and Wagon Roads
§ 892. Entries after expiration of grant
Statutory text
All such preemption and homestead entries which may have been made by permission of the Land Department, or in pursuance of the rules and instructions thereof, within the limits of any land grant at a time subsequent to expiration of such grant, shall be deemed valid, and a compliance with the laws and the making of the proof required shall entitle the holder of such claim to a patent therefor.
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. 44–72 § 3 · 19 Stat. 35
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 892
(Apr. 21, 1876, ch. 72, § 3, 19 Stat. 36.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Apr. 21, 1876, ch. 72, § 3, 19 Stat. 36.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That all such pre-emption and homestead entries which may have been made by permission of the Land Department, or in pursuance of the rules and instructions thereof, within the limits of any land-grant at a time subsequent to expiration of such grant, shall be deemed valid, and a compliance with the laws and the making of the proof required shall entitle the holder of such claim to a patent therefor.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
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.
Credits
(Apr. 21, 1876, ch. 72, § 3, 19 Stat. 36.)