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43 U.S.C. § 872 — Conveyances to United States in connection with applications for amendment of patented entries or for exchange of land, etc.; withdrawal or rejection of applications; reconveyances
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Where a conveyance of land has been made or may hereafter be made to the United States in connection with an application for amendment of a patented entry or entries, or an exchange of lands, or for any other purpose, and the application in connection with which the conveyance was made is thereafter withdrawn or rejected, the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate is authorized and directed, if the deed of conveyance has been recorded, to execute a quitclaim deed of the conveyed land to the party or parties entitled thereto.
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Where a conveyance of land has been made or may hereafter be made to the United States in connection with an application for amendment of a patented entry or entries, or an exchange of lands, or for any other purpose, and the application in connection with which the conveyance was made is thereafter withdrawn or rejected, the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate is authorized and directed, if the deed of conveyance has been recorded, to execute a quitclaim deed of the conveyed land to the party or parties entitled thereto.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, R.S. § 446; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, provided that there shall be in the Department of the Interior a Director of the Bureau of Land Management. Provision for a Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior and for the structure of such Bureau is contained in section 403 of the 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, which is set out below.
#### Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under [section 1451 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1451&num=0&edition=prelim).
For transfer of records, property, personnel, and funds, see sections 1001 to 1003 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7875, 60 Stat. 1097, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
#### Bureau of Land Management Created
Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, provided:
“(a) The functions of the General Land Office and of the Grazing Service in the Department of the Interior are hereby consolidated to form a new agency in the Department of the Interior to be known as the Bureau of Land Management. The functions of the other agencies named in subsection (d) of this section are hereby transferred to the Secretary of the Interior.
“(b) There shall be at the head of such Bureau a Director of the Bureau of Land Management, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior under the classified civil service, who shall
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There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development, aquaculture, and human nutrition, in the most general and comprehensive sense of those terms, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
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There shall be at the seat of government an executive department to be known as the Department of the Interior, and a Secretary of the Interior, who shall be the head thereof.
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 873
date of the enactment of this Act [May 2, 1932], relin-
quish to the United States all right, title, and interest
in such lands and shall thereupon be entitled to all the
benefits of the Act of January 25, 1927 [sections 870 and
871 of this title], as amended by this Act.’’
Executive Documents
ADMISSION OF ALASKA AS STATE
Admission of Alaska into the Union was accom-
plished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan.
3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections
1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set
out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories
and Insular Possessions.
§ 871. Certain grants and laws unaffected
Nothing contained in section 870 of this title is
intended or shall be held or construed to in-
crease, diminish, or affect the rights of States
under grants other than for the support of com-
mon or public schools by numbered school sec-
tions in place, and said section shall not apply
to indemnity or lieu selections or exchanges or
the right after January 25, 1927, to select indem-
nity for numbered school sections in place lost
to the State under the provisions of said section
or any Acts, and all existing laws governing
such grants and indemnity or lieu selections and
exchanges are continued in full force and effect.
(Jan. 25, 1927, ch. 57, § 2, 44 Stat. 1027.)
§ 871a. Repealed. Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 705(a),
Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792
Section, act June 21, 1934, ch. 689, 48 Stat. 1185, au-
thorized issuance of patents to numbered school sec-
tions granted for support of common schools.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL
Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 705(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat.
2792, provided that the
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