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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 21 — Grants in Aid of Railroads and Wagon Roads

§ 894. Adjustment of land grants to railroads

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed as of , to adjust, in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court, each of the railroad land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads and theretofore unadjusted.

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. 49–376 § 1 · 24 Stat. 69

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 894

    (Mar. 3, 1887, ch. 376, § 1, 24 Stat. 556.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 3, 1887, ch. 376, § 1, 24 Stat. 556.)

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Credits

(Mar. 3, 1887, ch. 376, § 1, 24 Stat. 556.)

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