[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR2563.0-3]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2560_ALASKA OCCUPANCY AND USE--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart 2563_Homesites or Headquarters
 
Sec. 2563.0-3  Authority.

    (a) The Act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1364; 43 U.S.C. 687a), as 
amended, authorizes the sale as a homestead or headquarters of not to 
exceed five acres of unreserved public lands in Alaska at the rate of 
$2.50 per acre, to any citizen of the United States 21 years of age 
employed by citizens of the United States, association of such citizens, 
or by corporations organized under the laws of the United States, or of 
any State or Territory, whose employer is engaged in trade, manufacture, 
or other productive industry in Alaska, and to any such person who is 
himself engaged in trade, manufacture or other productive industry in 
Alaska. The lands must be nonmineral in character except that lands that 
may be valuable for coal,

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oil, or gas deposits are subject to disposition under the provisions of 
the Act of March 8, 1922 (42 Stat. 415, 43 U.S.C. 270-11, 270-12), as 
amended.
    (b) The Act of May 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 809; 43 U.S.C. 687a) amended 
section 10 of the Act of May 14, 1898 (30 Stat. 413), as amended by the 
Act of March 3, 1927 (44 Stat. 1364), so as to provide that any citizen, 
after occupying land of the character described in said section of a 
homestead or headquarters, in a habitable house not less than 5 months 
each year for 3 years, may purchase such tract, not exceeding 5 acres, 
in a reasonably compact form, without a showing as to his employment or 
business, upon the payment of $2.50 per acre, the minimum payment for 
any one tract to be $10.