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Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73not60

§990 Grant to Missouri

Title 43 › Chapter 23— GRANTS OF SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS › § 990

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

All swamp and overflowed lands in Missouri that had been picked and reported to the General Land Office and were held back from sale on March 3, 1877 are given to the State, and the State’s title to them is fixed. This applies only to lands that remained vacant and not taken, had no preemption, homestead, or other federal claim on them, and whose claim had not been rejected by the Commissioner of the General Land Office or other proper authority by that date. The Secretary of the Interior must issue patents for those lands.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §990

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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.

Legislative History

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Transfer of Functions

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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.
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, § 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.

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 990

Title 43 — Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60