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[CITE: 43USC892]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
         CHAPTER 21--GRANTS IN AID OF RAILROADS AND WAGON ROADS
 
Sec. 892. Entries after expiration of grant

    All such preemption and homestead entries which may have been made 
by permission of the Land Department, or in pursuance of the rules and 
instructions thereof, within the limits of any land grant at a time 
subsequent to expiration of such grant, shall be deemed valid, and a 
compliance with the laws and the making of the proof required shall 
entitle the holder of such claim to a patent therefor.

(Apr. 21, 1876, ch. 72, Sec. 3, 19 Stat. 36.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out 
under section 1451 of this title.
