43 USC § 986 - Selection of lands confirmed

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title: "43 USC § 986 - Selection of lands confirmed"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "986"
section_name: "Selection of lands confirmed"
chapter_number: 23
chapter_name: "GRANTS OF SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS"
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source_credit: "(R.S. § 2484.)"
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# § 986. Selection of lands confirmed

September 28, 1850

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 , 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.

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**Source Credit**: (R.S. § 2484.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 2484 derived from , .

## Executive Documents

### 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, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, , set out under .

General Land Office and office of Commissioner of General Land Office abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, . 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 .