43 U.S.C. § 861 — Preference right of selection granted certain Western States; bona fide settlers
submitted 133 years ago by ch. 208 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 109 words · no verdicts yet
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington have a 60-day preference to select certain surveyed lands. That preference does not apply against bona fide homestead or preemption settlers who were on the lands when the survey plat was filed.
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington have preference over any person or corporation to select lands that those States may enter under the February 22, 1889 Act. The preference lasts 60 days after the lands are surveyed and officially declared available under the general land laws. It does not apply against bona fide homestead or preemption settlers who were on the lands when the township survey plat was filed in a local land office.
The States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington shall have a preference right over any person or corporation to select lands subject to entry by said States by the Act of Congress approved February 22, 1889, for a period of sixty days after lands have been surveyed and duly declared to be subject to selection and entry under the general land laws of the United States.
Such preference right shall not accrue against bona fide homestead or preemption settlers on any of said lands at the date of filing of the plat of survey of any township in any local land office of said States.
Source credit: (Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 208, 27 Stat. 592.)
- 1893Enacted · Act of Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 208 · 27 Stat. 592
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