§ 990. — Grant to Missouri.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC990]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 23--GRANTS OF SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS
Sec. 990. Grant to Missouri
All lands in the State of Missouri selected as swamp and overflowed
lands, and regularly reported as such to the General Land Office, and on
March 3, 1877, withheld from market as such, so far as the same remain
vacant and unappropriated and not interfered with by any preemption,
homestead, or other claim under any law of the United States, and the
claim whereto has not been on said date rejected by the Commissioner of
the General Land Office, or other competent authority, are confirmed to
said State, and all title thereto vested in said State: and it is made
the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to cause patents to issue for
the same.
(Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 116, 19 Stat. 395.)
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 its Commissioner abolished by
Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876,
60 Stat. 1100, which transferred functions of former to Bureau of Land
Management, and transferred functions of latter to Secretary of the
Interior or that officer as he may designate. See section 403 of Reorg.
Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.