§ 1164. — Extent of foregoing provisions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC1164]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 28--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS
SUBCHAPTER II--DISPOSITION OF SUSPENDED ENTRIES AND CLAIMS; INVALID AND
DEFECTIVE CLAIMS AND PATENTS THEREFOR
Sec. 1164. Extent of foregoing provisions
Sections 1161 to 1163 of this title shall be applicable to all cases
of suspended entries and locations, which have arisen in the Bureau of
Land Management since the 26th day of June 1856 as well as to all cases
of a similar kind which may hereafter occur, embracing as well locations
under bounty-land warrants as ordinary entries or sales, including
homestead entries and preemption locations or cases; where the law has
been substantially complied with, and the error or informality arose
from ignorance, accident, or mistake which is satisfactorily explained;
and where the rights of no other claimant or preemptor are prejudiced,
or where there is no adverse claim.
(R.S. Sec. 2457; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946,
11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2457 derived from act June 26, 1856, ch. 47, 11 Stat. 22.
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,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out
under section 1451 of this title.
``Bureau of Land Management'' substituted for ``General Land
Office'' on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See
note set out under section 1 of this title.
