Chapter 33. To amend section 2372 of the Revised Statutes
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CHAP. 33.— An Act To amend section 2372 of the Revised Statutes. January 27, 1922.[[S. 1099](/us/bill/67/s/1099).][[Public, No. 131](/us/67/pl/131).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section 2372 of thePublic lands.[R. S. sec., 2372, p. 434, amended](/us/rs/s2372/p434).Transfer of entries erroneously canceled.Vol. 35, p. 646.Vol. 26, p. 1099. Revised Statutes is amended by adding thereto the following:
" “In all cases where a final entry of public lands has been or may be hereafter canceled, and such entry is held by the Land Department or by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been confirmed under the proviso to section 7 of the Act of March 3, 1891 (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page 1099), if the land has been disposed of to or appropriated by a claimant under the homestead or desert-land laws, or patented to a claimant under other public-land laws, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, and under rules to be prescribed by him, to change the entry and transfer the payment to any other tract of surveyed public land, nonmineral in character, free from lawful claim, and otherwise subject to general disposition: *Provided*, That the entryman, his heirs, or assigns shall file a *Provisos*.Original entry to be relinquished.relinquishment of all right, title, and interest in and to the land originally entered: *Provided further*, That no right or claim under theRight not assignable. provisions of this paragraph shall be assignable or transferable.
” " Approved, January 27, 1922.