§ 890. — Homestead entries on railroad lands prior to withdrawal or after restoration to market confirmed.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC890]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 21--GRANTS IN AID OF RAILROADS AND WAGON ROADS
Sec. 890. Homestead entries on railroad lands prior to
withdrawal or after restoration to market confirmed
All preemption and homestead entries, or entries in compliance with
any law of the United States, of the public lands, made in good faith,
by actual settlers, upon tracts of land of not more than one hundred and
sixty acres each, within the limits of any land grant, prior to the time
when notice of the withdrawal of the lands embraced in such grant was
received at the local land office of the district in which such lands
are situated, or after their restoration to market by order of the
Bureau of Land Management, and where the preemption and homestead laws
have been complied with, and proper proofs thereof have been made by the
parties holding such tracts or parcels, shall be confirmed, and patents
for the same shall issue to the parties entitled thereto.
(Apr. 21, 1876, ch. 72, Sec. 1, 19 Stat. 35; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3,
Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
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.
