§ 872. — Conveyances to United States in connection with applications for amendment of patented entries or for exchange of land, etc.; withdrawal or rejection of applications; reconveyances.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC872]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 20--RESERVATIONS AND GRANTS TO STATES FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES
Sec. 872. Conveyances to United States in connection with
applications for amendment of patented entries or for exchange
of land, etc.; withdrawal or rejection of applications;
reconveyances
Where a conveyance of land has been made or may hereafter be made to
the United States in connection with an application for amendment of a
patented entry or entries, or an exchange of lands, or for any other
purpose, and the application in connection with which the conveyance was
made is thereafter withdrawn or rejected, the Secretary of the Interior
or such officer as he may designate is authorized and directed, if the
deed of conveyance has been recorded, to execute a quitclaim deed of the
conveyed land to the party or parties entitled thereto.
(Apr. 28, 1930, ch. 219, Sec. 6, 46 Stat. 257; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3,
Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Transfer of Functions
Functions of Secretary of the Interior under this section, with
respect to execution of quitclaim deeds for lands conveyed to United
States in connection with exchange transactions involving lands under
jurisdiction of Secretary of Agriculture, transferred to Secretary of
Agriculture, see Pub. L. 86-509, June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 205, set out as
a note under section 2201 of Title 7, Agriculture.
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.
