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[CITE: 43USC641a]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
      CHAPTER 14--GRANTS OF DESERT LANDS TO STATES FOR RECLAMATION
 
Sec. 641a. Issuance of quitclaim deeds; patents for segregated 
        lands
        
    The Secretary of the Interior shall issue quitclaim deeds to the 
public-land States for all lands patented to such States under section 
641 of this title. He shall also issue a patent for all unpatented 
public lands within each State now segregated under that section for 
which the State issued final certificates or other evidence of right 
prior to June 1, 1953, or as to which equitable claims to the lands 
accrued prior to that date (by reason of cultivation or improvement of 
the lands for agricultural development purposes) for conveyance to the 
holders of such rights or claims, or to their heirs, successors, or 
assigns.

(Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 727, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 703.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 641c, 641d of this title.
