§ 907. — Rights of original grantees to forfeited lands.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC907]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 21--GRANTS IN AID OF RAILROADS AND WAGON ROADS
Sec. 907. Rights of original grantees to forfeited lands
No lands declared forfeited to the United States by sections 904 to
907 of this title 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 therein otherwise provided; nor shall said
sections 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 forfeited by
section 904 of this title, 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 declared to the benefit of
the completed line.
(Sept. 29, 1890, ch. 1040, Sec. 6, 26 Stat. 498.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 904, 905, 906 of this title.
