§ 986. — Selection of lands confirmed.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC986]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 23--GRANTS OF SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS
Sec. 986. Selection of lands confirmed
All land selected and reported to the General Land Office as swamp
and overflowed land by the several States entitled to the provisions of
said Act of September 28, 1850, prior to March 3, A.D. 1857, are
confirmed to said States respectively so far as the same remained vacant
and unappropriated and not interfered with by an actual settlement under
any law of the United States.
(R.S. Sec. 2484.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2484 derived from act Mar. 3, 1857, ch. 117, 11 Stat. 251.
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.
General Land Office and office of Commissioner of General Land
Office abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16,
1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100. Functions of former transferred to
Bureau of Land Management, and functions of latter transferred to
Secretary of the Interior or that officer as he may designate, by that
Plan. See section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out as a note
under section 1 of this title.
