§ 981. — Indemnity to States on sale of 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: 43USC981]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 23--GRANTS OF SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS
Sec. 981. Indemnity to States on sale of lands
Upon proof by the authorized agent of the State, before the
Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate, that any
of the lands purchased by any person from the United States, prior to
March 2, 1855, were ``swamp lands'', within the true intent and meaning
of the Act entitled ``An Act to enable the State of Arkansas and other
States to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits'', approved
September 28, 1850, the purchase money shall be paid over to the State
wherein said land is situate; and when the lands have been located by
warrant or scrip, the said State shall be authorized to locate a like
quantity of any of the public lands subject to entry, at $1.25 per acre,
or less, and patents shall issue therefor. The decision of the Secretary
or such officer shall be first approved by the Secretary of the
Interior.
(R.S. Sec. 2482; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946,
11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
References in Text
Act approved September 28, 1850, referred to in text, is act Sept.
28, 1850, ch. 84, 9 Stat. 519, which is not classified to the Code.
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2482 derived from act Mar. 2, 1855, ch. 147, Sec. 2, 10
Stat. 634, 635.
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, which abolished General
Land Office and Commissioner thereof and transferred functions of
General Land Office to a new agency in Department of the Interior to be
known as Bureau of Land Management. See section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3
of 1946, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.