---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 985"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "985"
heading: "Omitted"
status: "omitted"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/985"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Grants of Swamp and Overflowed Lands"
---

# [§985. Omitted — omitted]



## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section, R.S. § 2483, authorized the issuance of patents to purchasers or locators who have made entries on public lands claimed as swamp lands.