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    43 USC Sec. 859                                              01/16/96
 
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    TITLE 43 - PUBLIC LANDS
    CHAPTER 20 - RESERVATIONS AND GRANTS TO STATES FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES
 
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    Sec. 859. Fee simple to pass in all grants
 
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      Where lands have been or may hereafter be granted by any law of
    Congress to any one of the several States and Territories, and
    where such law does not convey the fee-simple title of the lands,
    or require patents to be issued therefor, the list of such lands
    which have been or may hereafter be certified by the Secretary of
    the Interior or such officer as he may designate, under the seal of
    his office, either as originals or copies of the originals or
    records shall be regarded as conveying the fee simple of all the
    lands embraced in such lists that are of the character contemplated
    by such Act of Congress, and intended to be granted thereby, but
    where lands embraced in such lists are not of the character
    embraced by such Acts of Congress, and are not intended to be
    granted thereby, the lists, so far as these lands are concerned,
    shall be perfectly null and void, and no right, title, claim, or
    interest shall be conveyed thereby.
 
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    (R.S. Sec. 2449; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff.  July 16,
    1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
 
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                                CODIFICATION
      R.S. Sec. 2449 derived from acts Aug. 3, 1854, ch. 201, 10 Stat.
    346; Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 139, Sec. 8, 18 Stat. 475.
 
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                           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, Sec. 1, 2, eff.  May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64
    Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title.
      ''Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate''
    substituted for ''Commissioner of the General Land Office'' on
    authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set
    out under section 1 of this title.