Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-84
§2 Untitled Section
Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 19— - BOUNTY LANDS › § 2
Summary
Interior Secretary must buy and cancel unsatisfied military bounty-land warrants issued under laws repealed by section 1 at $1.25 per acre. The Secretary mails a registered offer to the recorded holder and pays only on surrender. If the holder does not surrender within one year, the warrant cannot later be recorded, used to claim land, or paid. If transferred, the new holder has the longer of the remaining year or six months to surrender and be paid.
Full Legal Text
Title 43, §2
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The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to purchase at the rate of $1.25 per acre from the holders thereof and to cancel all valid unsatisfied military bounty land warrants which were issued pursuant to the laws repealed by section 1 of this Act and which are recorded with the Secretary pursuant to, and under the terms and conditions of, the Act of August 5, 1955 (69 Stat. 534) [set out as a note to section 274 of this title], and the regulations issued thereunder. The Secretary will send his offer to purchase by registered mail to the post office address of the holder of record with the Secretary as of the time the offer is made and will require the holder to surrender the warrant as a condition of payment therefor. If the holder of a warrant, within one year from and after receipt of an offer to purchase from the Secretary, shall fail to surrender his warrant and accept payment therefor as provided for in this section, the warrant shall not thereafter be accepted by the Secretary of the Interior for further recordation under the Act of 1955, supra, or as a basis for the acquisition of lands, or for payment under this section: Provided, That if within the one year after receipt of an offer to purchase, the warrant is transferred the transferee shall have the remainder of the one-year period or a period of six months, whichever is the longer, within which to surrender his warrant and accept payment.
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Citation
43 U.S.C. § 2
Title 43 — Public Lands
Last Updated
Apr 22, 2026
Release point: 119-84