[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: 43CFR2631.0-3]

[Page 180]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2630_RAILROAD GRANTS--Table of Contents
 
Subpart 2631_Patents for Lands Sold by Railroad Carriers (Transportation 
                              Act of 1940)
 
Sec. 2631.0-3  Authority.




Subpart 2631_Patents for Lands Sold by Railroad Carriers (Transportation 
                              Act of 1940)

Sec.
2631.0-3 Authority.
2631.0-8 Lands for which applications may be made.
2631.1 Applications.
2631.2 Publication of notice.
2631.3 Surveying and conveyance fees.
2631.4 Patents.


    Authority: R.S. 2478; 43 U.S.C. 1201.

    Source: 35 FR 9613, June 13, 1970, unless otherwise noted.


    Subsection (b) of section 321, Part II, Title III, of the 
Transportation Act of September 18, 1940 (54 Stat. 934; 49 U.S.C. 65), 
authorizes the issuance of patents for the benefit of certain innocent 
purchasers for value of land-grant lands from railroad carriers which 
have released their land-grant claims.

    Note: Notices of releases of land grant claims by railroad carriers 
listing the carriers, the date of the approval of the release and the 
land-grant predecessors involved dated Dec. 17, 1940, May 17, 1941, and 
June 29, 1942, appear at 6 FR 449, 2634, and 7 FR 5319.