[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: 43CFR2631.0-3]



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                    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.