Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73not60
§890 Homestead Entries on Railroad Lands Prior to Withdrawal or After Restoration to Market Confirmed
Title 43 › Chapter 21— GRANTS IN AID OF RAILROADS AND WAGON ROADS › § 890
Summary
The government will confirm and give official ownership papers to settlers who, in good faith, occupied and made homestead, preemption, or other lawful claims on parcels of not more than 160 acres inside a land grant. This applies if the claim was made before the local land office got notice the land was withdrawn, or after the Bureau of Land Management put the land back on the market, and the settlers followed the law and proved their claims.
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Title 43, §890
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All preemption and homestead entries, or entries in compliance with any law of the United States, of the public lands, made in good faith, by actual settlers, upon tracts of land of not more than one hundred and sixty acres each, within the limits of any land grant, prior to the time when notice of the withdrawal of the lands embraced in such grant was received at the local land office of the district in which such lands are situated, or after their restoration to market by order of the Bureau of Land Management, and where the preemption and homestead laws have been complied with, and proper proofs thereof have been made by the parties holding such tracts or parcels, shall be confirmed, and patents for the same shall issue to the parties entitled thereto.
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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. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title. “Bureau of Land Management” substituted for “General Land Office” on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.
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43 U.S.C. § 890
Title 43 — Public Lands
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60