CFR > Title 43 - Public Lands: Interior > SUBTITLE B—Regulations Relating to Public Lands > CHAPTER II—BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (parts 1000 to 9260) > SUBCHAPTER B—LAND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (2000) (parts 2091 to 2931) > PART 2631—RAILROAD GRANTS > SUBPART 2631—Patents for Lands Sold by Railroad Carriers (Transportation Act of 1940) (§2631.0-3 to §2631.4) > 2631.0-3—Authority.

2631.0-3—Authority.

Subsection (b) of section 321, Part II, Title III, of the Transportation Act of September 18, 1940 (54 Stat. 934; 49 U.S.C. 65 ), authorizes the issuance of patents for the benefit of certain innocent purchasers for value of land-grant lands from railroad carriers which have released their land-grant claims.

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Note: Notices of releases of land grant claims by railroad carriers listing the carriers, the date of the approval of the release and the land-grant predecessors involved dated Dec. 17, 1940, May 17, 1941, and June 29, 1942, appear at 6 FR 449, 2634, and 7 FR 5319.