---
kind: "unit"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
key: "ch23"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 23"
heading: "Grants of Swamp and Overflowed Lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/ch23"
sections_count: 14
---

# Chapter 23 — Grants of Swamp and Overflowed Lands

Title 43 — Public Lands

## Sections

- [§981. Indemnity to States on sale of lands](/usc/43/981.md)
- [§982. Grant to States to aid in construction of levees and drains](/usc/43/982.md)
- [§983. Lists and plats of lands, for governors of States](/usc/43/983.md)
- [§984. Legal subdivisions mostly wet and unfit for cultivation](/usc/43/984.md)
- [§985. Omitted](/usc/43/985.md)
- [§986. Selection of lands confirmed](/usc/43/986.md)
- [§987. Lands to be certified to State within one year](/usc/43/987.md)
- [§988. Act extended to Minnesota and Oregon](/usc/43/988.md)
- [§989. Homestead entries by purchasers from Missouri of lands declared not to be swamp lands](/usc/43/989.md)
- [§990. Grant to Missouri](/usc/43/990.md)
- [§991. Title of purchasers of unconfirmed lands in Arkansas confirmed](/usc/43/991.md)
- [§992. Sale of erroneously designated water-covered areas in Arkansas](/usc/43/992.md)
- [§993. Sale of lands in Louisiana; preference rights; application for purchase; appraisal; payment for land](/usc/43/993.md)
- [§994. Sale of lands in Wisconsin](/usc/43/994.md)