43 U.S.C. § 375d — Issuance of patent for small tracts; reservations

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Once a buyer pays the full price for a small land tract, the government issues a patent. The patent can reserve water-charge liens and mineral rights, like homestead-law patents do. It may also include any other legally required conditions.

Once a buyer has paid the United States the full purchase price for one of these small tracts, the government issues a patent transferring ownership. That patent can include a lien reserving water charges, if the Secretary thinks that's appropriate. It also reserves coal and other mineral rights, the same way patents issued under the homestead laws do. Beyond that, the patent can carry whatever other reservations, limits, or conditions the law already requires.

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After the purchaser has paid to the United States all the amount on the purchase price of such land, a patent shall be issued. Such patents shall contain a reservation of a lien for water charges when deemed appropriate by the Secretary, and reservations of coal or other mineral rights to the same extent as patents issued under the homestead laws and also other reservations, limitations, or conditions as now provided by law.

Source credit: (Mar. 31, 1950, ch. 78, § 3, 64 Stat. 40.)

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1950Enacted · Act of Mar. 31, 1950, ch. 78 · 64 Stat. 40

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