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[CITE: 43USC857]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
    CHAPTER 20--RESERVATIONS AND GRANTS TO STATES FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES
 
Sec. 857. Grant to new States

    There is granted, for purposes of internal improvement, to each new 
State admitted into the Union, after September 4, 1841, upon such 
admission, so much public land as, including the quantity that was 
granted to such State before its admission and while under a territorial 
government, will make five hundred thousand acres.
    The selections of lands, granted in this section, shall be made 
within the limits of each State so admitted into the Union, in such 
manner as the legislatures thereof, respectively, may direct; and such 
lands shall be located in parcels conformably to sectional divisions and 
subdivisions of not less than three hundred and twenty acres in any one 
location, on any public land not reserved from sale by law of Congress 
or by proclamation of the President. The locations may be made at any 
time after the public lands in any such new State have been surveyed 
according to law.

(R.S. Secs. 2378, 2379.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Secs. 2378, 2379 derived from act Sept. 4, 1841, ch. 16, 
Sec. 8, 5 Stat. 455.


                     Grants Not To Extend to Alaska

    Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on 
issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as 
required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85-508, July 7, 1958, 72 
Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, 
Territories and Insular Possessions.
    Land grant under Alaska Statehood provisions in lieu of grant of 
land under this section (declared not to extend to Alaska), see section 
6(l) of Pub. L. 85-508, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 
48.
