[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: 43CFR2623.1]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2620_STATE GRANTS--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart 2623_School Land Grants to Certain States Extended To Include 
                            Mineral Sections
 
Sec. 2623.1  Effective date of grant.

    Grants to the States of school lands in place (the numbered 
sections), of the character and status subject thereto, as a rule, are 
effective and operate to vest title upon the date of the approval of the 
statute making the grant or the date of the admission of the State into 
the Union, as to lands then surveyed, and as to the lands thereafter 
surveyed upon the date of the acceptance of the survey thereof by the 
Director of the Bureau of Land Management. (United States v. Morrison, 
240 U.S. 192, 60 L. ed. 599; United States v. Sweet, 245 U.S. 563, 62 L. 
ed. 473; Wyoming et al. v. United States, supra.) It is held, therefore, 
that the grant made by the first paragraph of section 1 of the Act of 
January 25, 1927, subject to the provision therein with respect to 
indemnity or lieu lands, to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of 
said section 1 and following the plain provisions of subsection (a) 
thereof is effective upon the date of the approval of the Act (January 
25, 1927) as to lands then surveyed and the survey thereof accepted by 
the Director of the Bureau of Land Management and as to the unsurveyed 
school sections in the State of Florida granted to that State by the Act 
of September 22, 1922. The grant, as to other lands thereafter surveyed, 
subject to the same provisions is effective upon the acceptance of the 
survey thereof as above indicated.