§ 857. — Grant to new States.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC857]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 20--RESERVATIONS AND GRANTS TO STATES FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES
Sec. 857. Grant to new States
There is granted, for purposes of internal improvement, to each new
State admitted into the Union, after September 4, 1841, upon such
admission, so much public land as, including the quantity that was
granted to such State before its admission and while under a territorial
government, will make five hundred thousand acres.
The selections of lands, granted in this section, shall be made
within the limits of each State so admitted into the Union, in such
manner as the legislatures thereof, respectively, may direct; and such
lands shall be located in parcels conformably to sectional divisions and
subdivisions of not less than three hundred and twenty acres in any one
location, on any public land not reserved from sale by law of Congress
or by proclamation of the President. The locations may be made at any
time after the public lands in any such new State have been surveyed
according to law.
(R.S. Secs. 2378, 2379.)
Codification
R.S. Secs. 2378, 2379 derived from act Sept. 4, 1841, ch. 16,
Sec. 8, 5 Stat. 455.
Grants Not To Extend to Alaska
Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on
issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as
required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72
Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48,
Territories and Insular Possessions.
Land grant under Alaska Statehood provisions in lieu of grant of
land under this section (declared not to extend to Alaska), see section
6(l) of Pub. L. 85-508, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title
48.
