43 U.S.C. § 990 : US Code - Section 990: Grant to Missouri

Search 43 U.S.C. § 990 : US Code - Section 990: Grant to Missouri

All lands in the State of Missouri selected as swamp and
overflowed lands, and regularly reported as such to the General
Land Office, and on March 3, 1877, withheld from market as such, so
far as the same remain vacant and unappropriated and not interfered
with by any preemption, homestead, or other claim under any law of
the United States, and the claim whereto has not been on said date
rejected by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, or other
competent authority, are confirmed to said State, and all title
thereto vested in said State: and it is made the duty of the
Secretary of the Interior to cause patents to issue for the same.