---
kind: "unit"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
key: "ch21"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 21"
heading: "Grants in Aid of Railroads and Wagon Roads"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/ch21"
sections_count: 34
---

# Chapter 21 — Grants in Aid of Railroads and Wagon Roads

Title 43 — Public Lands

## Sections

- [§881. Cost of survey of grants to railroads; payment](/usc/43/881.md)
- [§882. Surveyed lands taxable notwithstanding lien; provisos](/usc/43/882.md)
- [§883. Collection of costs of surveying, etc.; reimbursement of purchaser](/usc/43/883.md)
- [§884. Right of forfeiture of railroad grants not affected](/usc/43/884.md)
- [§885. Union Pacific Railroad lands](/usc/43/885.md)
- [§886. Survey of lands within limits of railroad grants](/usc/43/886.md)
- [§887. Deposits for surveys of lands granted to railroads](/usc/43/887.md)
- [§888. Selection by railroads of lands in lieu of lands entered subsequent to accrual of rights; title of settlers](/usc/43/888.md)
- [§889. Rights of entrymen whose entries had not been admitted to record](/usc/43/889.md)
- [§890. Homestead entries on railroad lands prior to withdrawal or after restoration to market confirmed](/usc/43/890.md)
- [§891. Abandoned railroad lands; reentry](/usc/43/891.md)
- [§892. Entries after expiration of grant](/usc/43/892.md)
- [§893. Rights of permissive settlers on railroad lands restored to public domain](/usc/43/893.md)
- [§894. Adjustment of land grants to railroads](/usc/43/894.md)
- [§895. Cancellation of patents erroneously issued; reconveyance](/usc/43/895.md)
- [§896. Erroneous cancellation of bona fide entries corrected](/usc/43/896.md)
- [§897. Patents to purchasers from railroads; purchase money](/usc/43/897.md)
- [§898. Rights of purchasers from railroads of coterminous lands not within grants](/usc/43/898.md)
- [§899. Limitation of quantity to be conveyed](/usc/43/899.md)
- [§900. Suits to cancel patents to lands erroneously issued under railroad or wagon-road grants](/usc/43/900.md)
- [§901. Claims of bona fide purchasers; establishment of rights](/usc/43/901.md)
- [§902. Cancellation; investigation before suit](/usc/43/902.md)
- [§903. Relief of settlers on lands granted in aid of wagon roads](/usc/43/903.md)
- [§904. Forfeiture of unearned grants; restoration to public domain](/usc/43/904.md)
- [§905. Homestead entries on forfeited lands](/usc/43/905.md)
- [§906. Purchase by bona fide purchasers from grantees; removal of crops and improvements](/usc/43/906.md)
- [§907. Rights of original grantees to forfeited lands](/usc/43/907.md)
- [§908. Deposits by railroad companies for costs of surveying and conveying unsurveyed lands granted](/usc/43/908.md)
- [§909. Forfeiture of grant on failure to make deposit](/usc/43/909.md)
- [§910. Right to extend public surveys over lands granted, and other rights of United States, not affected](/usc/43/910.md)
- [§911. Regulations](/usc/43/911.md)
- [§912. Disposition of abandoned or forfeited railroad grants](/usc/43/912.md)
- [§913. Conveyance by land grant railroads of portions of rights of way to State, county, or municipality](/usc/43/913.md)
- [§914. Omitted](/usc/43/914.md)