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[CITE: 43USC1221]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
      CHAPTER 28--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS
 
           SUBCHAPTER XI--WISCONSIN RIVER AND LAKE LAND TITLES
 
Sec. 1221. Issuance of patents; application

    Whenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of 
the Interior that a tract of public land, lying between the meander line 
of an inland lake or river in Wisconsin as originally surveyed and the 
meander line of that lake or river as subsequently resurveyed, has been 
held in good faith and in peaceful, adverse possession by a person, or 
his predecessors in interest, who had been issued a patent, prior to 
January 21, 1953, for lands lying along the meander line as originally 
determined, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause a patent to be 
issued to such person for such land upon the payment of the same price 
per acre as that at which the land included in the original patent was 
purchased and upon the same terms and conditions. All persons seeking to 
purchase lands under this subchapter shall make application to the 
Secretary within one year from August 24, 1954, or from the date of the 
official filing of the plat or resurvey, whichever is later, and the 
Secretary of the Interior shall cause no patents to be issued for land 
lying between the original meander line and the resurveyed meander line 
until the conclusion of such periods.

(Aug. 24, 1954, ch. 900, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 789.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1222 of this title.
