§ 893. — Rights of permissive settlers on railroad lands restored to public domain.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC893]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 21--GRANTS IN AID OF RAILROADS AND WAGON ROADS
Sec. 893. Rights of permissive settlers on railroad lands
restored to public domain
All persons who shall have settled and made valuable and permanent
improvements upon any odd-numbered section of land within any railroad
withdrawal in good faith and with the permission or license of the
railroad company for whose benefit the same shall have been made, and
with the expectation of purchasing of such company the land so settled
upon, which land so settled upon and improved, may, for any cause, be
restored to the public domain, and who, at the time of such restoration,
may not be entitled to enter and acquire title to such land under the
homestead laws of the United States, shall be permitted, at any time
within three months after such restoration, and under such rules and
regulations as the Secretary of the Interior, or such officer as he may
designate, may prescribe, to purchase not to exceed one hundred and
sixty acres in extent of the same by legal subdivisions, at the price of
$2.50 per acre, and to receive patents therefor.
(Jan. 13, 1881, ch. 19, 21 Stat. 315; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, Secs. 1, 4,
26 Stat. 1095, 1097; Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 208, 27 Stat. 593; 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.
``Secretary of the Interior, or such officer as he may designate,''
substituted for ``Commissioner of the 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.
