---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 853"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "853"
heading: "Selections in Utah to supply deficiencies of school lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/853"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Reservations and Grants to States for Public Purposes"
---

# §853. Selections in Utah to supply deficiencies of school lands


All the provisions of sections [851](/usc/43/851.md) and [852](/usc/43/852.md) of this title, which provide for the selection of lands for educational purposes in lieu of those appropriated for other purposes, are made applicable to the [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) of Utah, and the grant of school lands to said [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8), including sections [2](/usc/43/2.md) and [32](/usc/43/32.md) in each township, and indemnity therefor, shall be administered and adjusted in accordance with the provisions of said sections, anything in the Act approved July 16, 1894, providing for the admission of said [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) into the Union, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Wherever the words “sections [16](/usc/43/16.md) and [36](/usc/43/36.md)” occur in said sections, the same as applicable to the [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) of Utah shall read: “sections [2](/usc/43/2.md), [16](/usc/43/16.md), [32](/usc/43/32.md), and [36](/usc/43/36.md)”, and wherever the words “sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections” occur the same shall read: “second, sixteenth, thirty-second, and thirty-sixth sections”, and wherever the words “sections [16](/usc/43/16.md) or [36](/usc/43/36.md)” occur the same shall read: “sections [2](/usc/43/2.md), [16](/usc/43/16.md), [32](/usc/43/32.md), or [36](/usc/43/36.md)”, and wherever the words “two sections” occur the same shall read “four sections.”


## Source credit

(May 3, 1902, ch. 683, §§ 1, 2, 32 Stat. 188, 189.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Act approved July 16, 1894, referred to in text, is act July 16, 1894, ch. 138, 28 Stat. 107. Provisions of such act relating to admission of Utah into the Union are not classified to the Code.