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[CITE: 43USC861]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
    CHAPTER 20--RESERVATIONS AND GRANTS TO STATES FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES
 
Sec. 861. Preference right of selection granted certain Western 
        States; bona fide settlers
        
    The States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and 
Washington shall have a preference right over any person or corporation 
to select lands subject to entry by said States by the Act of Congress 
approved February 22, 1889, for a period of sixty days after lands have 
been surveyed and duly declared to be subject to selection and entry 
under the general land laws of the United States.
    Such preference right shall not accrue against bona fide homestead 
or preemption settlers on any of said lands at the date of filing of the 
plat of survey of any township in any local land office of said States.

(Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 208, 27 Stat. 592.)

                       References in Text

    Act February 22, 1889, referred to in text, is act Feb. 22, 1889, 
ch. 180, 25 Stat. 676. Provisions relating to admission of the 
enumerated States into the Union are not classified to the Code.
