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[CITE: 43USC900]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
         CHAPTER 21--GRANTS IN AID OF RAILROADS AND WAGON ROADS
 
Sec. 900. Suits to cancel patents to lands erroneously issued 
        under railroad or wagon-road grants
        
    Suits by the United States to vacate and annul any patent to lands 
erroneously issued under a railroad or wagon-road grant shall only be 
brought within six years after the date of the issuance of such patents. 
But no patent to any lands held by a bona fide purchaser shall be 
vacated or annulled, but the right and title of such purchaser is hereby 
confirmed: Provided, That no suit shall be brought or maintained, nor 
shall recovery be had for lands or the value thereof, that were 
certified or patented in lieu of other lands covered by a grant which 
were lost or relinquished by the grantee in consequence of the failure 
of the Government or its officers to withdraw the same from sale or 
entry.

(Mar. 2, 1896, ch. 39, Sec. 1, 29 Stat. 42.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 903 of this title.
