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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 23 — Grants of Swamp and Overflowed Lands

§ 984. Legal subdivisions mostly wet and unfit for cultivation

Statutory text

In making out lists and plats of the lands aforesaid all legal subdivisions, the greater part whereof is wet and unfit for cultivation, shall be included in said lists and plats, but when the greater part of a subdivision is not of that character, the whole of it shall be excluded therefrom.

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. (R.S. § 2481.)

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 984

    (R.S. § 2481.)

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (R.S. § 2481.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 2481 derived from act Sept. 28, 1850, ch. 84, § 3, 9 Stat. 519.

Credits

(R.S. § 2481.)

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