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[CITE: 43USC989]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
            CHAPTER 23--GRANTS OF SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS
 
Sec. 989. Homestead entries by purchasers from Missouri of lands 
        declared not to be swamp lands
        
    In all cases in the State of Missouri where lands have, prior to 
February 23, 1875, been selected and claimed as swamp and overflowed 
lands by said State, and the various counties therein, by virtue of any 
Act of Congress, and said lands have been withheld from market in 
consequence thereof by the General Government, and the said State and 
counties have sold said lands to actual settlers, and said settlers have 
improved the same to the value of $100; said settlers, their heirs, 
assigns, and legal representatives, who have continued to reside 
thereon, shall have priority of right to homestead all such lands as may 
be rejected by the United States as not being in fact swamp and 
overflowed lands; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the 
Interior to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry 
into effect the provisions of this section: Provided, That nothing 
herein contained shall prejudice the rights of any person who may have 
made actual settlement upon such lands under the preemption or homestead 
laws prior to February 23, 1875.

(Feb. 23, 1875, ch. 99, 18 Stat. 334; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, Sec. 4, 26 
Stat. 1097.)
