43 U.S.C. § 893 : US Code - Section 893: Rights of permissive settlers on railroad lands restored to public domain

Search 43 U.S.C. § 893 : US Code - Section 893: Rights of permissive settlers on railroad lands restored to public domain

All persons who shall have settled and made valuable and
permanent improvements upon any odd-numbered section of land within
any railroad withdrawal in good faith and with the permission or
license of the railroad company for whose benefit the same shall
have been made, and with the expectation of purchasing of such
company the land so settled upon, which land so settled upon and
improved, may, for any cause, be restored to the public domain, and
who, at the time of such restoration, may not be entitled to enter
and acquire title to such land under the homestead laws of the
United States, shall be permitted, at any time within three months
after such restoration, and under such rules and regulations as the
Secretary of the Interior, or such officer as he may designate, may
prescribe, to purchase not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres in
extent of the same by legal subdivisions, at the price of $2.50 per
acre, and to receive patents therefor.