§ 1221. — Issuance of patents; application.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC1221]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 28--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS
SUBCHAPTER XI--WISCONSIN RIVER AND LAKE LAND TITLES
Sec. 1221. Issuance of patents; application
Whenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of
the Interior that a tract of public land, lying between the meander line
of an inland lake or river in Wisconsin as originally surveyed and the
meander line of that lake or river as subsequently resurveyed, has been
held in good faith and in peaceful, adverse possession by a person, or
his predecessors in interest, who had been issued a patent, prior to
January 21, 1953, for lands lying along the meander line as originally
determined, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause a patent to be
issued to such person for such land upon the payment of the same price
per acre as that at which the land included in the original patent was
purchased and upon the same terms and conditions. All persons seeking to
purchase lands under this subchapter shall make application to the
Secretary within one year from August 24, 1954, or from the date of the
official filing of the plat or resurvey, whichever is later, and the
Secretary of the Interior shall cause no patents to be issued for land
lying between the original meander line and the resurveyed meander line
until the conclusion of such periods.
(Aug. 24, 1954, ch. 900, Sec. 1, 68 Stat. 789.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 1222 of this title.
