---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 988"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "988"
heading: "Act extended to Minnesota and Oregon"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/988"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Grants of Swamp and Overflowed Lands"
---

# §988. Act extended to Minnesota and Oregon


The provisions of sections [982](/usc/43/982.md) to [984](/usc/43/984.md) of this title are extended to the [States](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) of Minnesota and Oregon: Provided, That the grant shall not include any lands which the Government of the United States may have sold or disposed of under any law, enacted prior to March 12, 1860, prior to the confirmation of title to be made under the authority of said sections—and the selections to be made from lands already surveyed in each of the [States](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) last named, under the authority of said sections, shall have been made within two years from the adjournment of the legislature of each [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8), at its next session after the 12th day of March, A. D. 1860—and as to all lands surveyed or to be surveyed, thereafter, within two years from such adjournment, at the next session after notice by the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior to the governor of the [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8), that the [surveys](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) have been completed and confirmed.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 2490.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 2490 derived from act Mar. 12, 1860, ch. 5, §§ 1, 2, 12 Stat. 3.