
From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 43USC1163]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
      CHAPTER 28--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS
 
SUBCHAPTER II--DISPOSITION OF SUSPENDED ENTRIES AND CLAIMS; INVALID AND 
                  DEFECTIVE CLAIMS AND PATENTS THEREFOR
 
Sec. 1163. Patents surrendered and new ones issued

    Where patents have been already issued on entries which are approved 
by the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the Interior, or such 
officer as he may designate, upon the canceling of the outstanding 
patent, is authorized to issue a new patent, on such approval, to the 
person who made the entry, his heirs or assigns.

(R.S. Sec. 2456; Sept. 20, 1922, ch. 350, 42 Stat. 858; 1946 Reorg. Plan 
No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2456 derived from act Mar. 3, 1853, ch. 152, Sec. 2, 10 
Stat. 258.

                          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, 
Secs. 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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1164 of this title.
