§ 907. Rights of original grantees to forfeited lands

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. 1890

   Pub. L. 51–1040 § 6 · 26 Stat. 496

   Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 907

   (Sept. 29, 1890, ch. 1040, § 6, 26 Stat. 498.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Sept. 29, 1890, ch. 1040, § 6, 26 Stat. 498.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 6. That no lands declared forfeited to the United States by Disposition of forfeited lands, etc. this act shall by reason of such forfeiture inure to the benefit of any State or corporation to which lands may have been granted by Congress, except as herein otherwise provided; nor shall this act be construed to enlarge the area of land originally covered by any such grant, or to confer any right upon any State, corporation or person to lands which were excepted from such grant. Nor shall the moiety of the lands granted to any railroad company on account of a main and a branch line appertaining to uncompleted road, and hereby forfeited, within the conflicting limits of the grants for such main and branch lines, when but one of such lines has been completed, inure by virtue of the forfeiture hereby declared, to the benefit of the completed line.

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