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[CITE: 43USC871]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
    CHAPTER 20--RESERVATIONS AND GRANTS TO STATES FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES
 
Sec. 871. Certain grants and laws unaffected

    Nothing contained in section 870 of this title is intended or shall 
be held or construed to increase, diminish, or affect the rights of 
States under grants other than for the support of common or public 
schools by numbered school sections in place, and said section shall not 
apply to indemnity or lieu selections or exchanges or the right after 
January 25, 1927, to select indemnity for numbered school sections in 
place lost to the State under the provisions of said section or any 
Acts, and all existing laws governing such grants and indemnity or lieu 
selections and exchanges are continued in full force and effect.

(Jan. 25, 1927, ch. 57, Sec. 2, 44 Stat. 1027.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 870 of this title.
