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[CITE: 43USC1061]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
CHAPTER 25--UNLAWFUL INCLOSURES OR OCCUPANCY; OBSTRUCTING SETTLEMENT OR 
                                 TRANSIT
 
Sec. 1061. Inclosure of or assertion of right to public lands 
        without title
        
    All inclosures of any public lands in any State or Territory of the 
United States, heretofore or to be hereafter made, erected, or 
constructed by any person, party, association, or corporation, to any of 
which land included within the inclosure the person, party, association, 
or corporation making or controlling the inclosure had no claim or color 
of title made or acquired in good faith, or an asserted right thereto by 
or under claim, made in good faith with a view to entry thereof at the 
proper land office under the general laws of the United States at the 
time any such inclosure was or shall be made, are declared to be 
unlawful, and the maintenance, erection, construction, or control of any 
such inclosure is forbidden and prohibited; and the assertion of a right 
to the exclusive use and occupancy of any part of the public lands of 
the United States in any State or any of the Territories of the United 
States, without claim, color of title, or asserted right as above 
specified as to inclosure, is likewise declared unlawful, and 
prohibited.

(Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 149, Sec. 1, 23 Stat. 321.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1062 of this title.
