43 U.S.C. § 107 : US Code - Section 107: Penalty for false information

Search 43 U.S.C. § 107 : US Code - Section 107: Penalty for false information

If any person applies to any officer designated by the Secretary
of the Interior to enter any land whatever, and the officer
knowingly and falsely informs the person so applying that the same
has already been entered, and refuses to permit the person so
applying to enter the same, such officer shall be liable therefor,
to the person so applying, for $5 for each acre of land which the
person so applying offered to enter, to be recovered by action of
debt in any court of record having jurisdiction of the amount.