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[CITE: 43USC983]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
            CHAPTER 23--GRANTS OF SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS
 
Sec. 983. Lists and plats of lands, for governors of States

    It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, to make 
accurate lists and plats of all such lands, and transmit the same to the 
governors of the several States in which such lands may lie, and at the 
request of the governor of any State in which said swamp and overflowed 
lands may be, to cause patents to be issued to said State therefor, 
conveying to said State the fee simple of said land.
    The proceeds of said lands, whether from sale or by direct 
appropriation in kind, shall be applied exclusively, as far as 
necessary, to the reclaiming said lands, by means of levees and drains.

(R.S. Sec. 2480.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2480 derived from act Sept. 28, 1850, ch. 84, Sec. 2, 9 
Stat. 519.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 864, 988 of this title.
