[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: 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.