[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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



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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, 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.