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[CITE: 43USC902]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
         CHAPTER 21--GRANTS IN AID OF RAILROADS AND WAGON ROADS
 
Sec. 902. Cancellation; investigation before suit

    If at any time prior to the institution of suit by the Attorney 
General to cancel any patent or certification of lands erroneously 
patented or certified a claim or statement is presented to the Secretary 
of the Interior by or on behalf of any person or persons, corporation or 
corporations, claiming that such person or persons, corporation or 
corporations, is a bona fide purchaser or are bona fide purchasers of 
any patented or certified land by deed or contract or otherwise, from or 
through the original patentee or corporation to which patent or 
certification was issued, no suit or action shall be brought to cancel 
or annul the patent or certification for said land until such claim is 
investigated in said Department of the Interior; and if it shall appear 
that such person or corporation is a bona fide purchaser as aforesaid, 
or that such persons or corporations are such bona fide purchasers, then 
no such suit shall be instituted and the title of such claimant or 
claimants shall stand confirmed; but the Secretary of the Interior shall 
request that suit be brought in such case against the patentee, or the 
corporation, company, person, or association of persons for whose 
benefit the patent was issued or certification was made for the value of 
the land as hereinbefore specified.

(Mar. 2, 1896, ch. 39, Sec. 3, 29 Stat. 43.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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