§ 2502.
Every such adjudication shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior and shall operate only to divest the United States of the title to the land embraced thereby, without prejudice to the rights of conflicting claimants.
(R.S. § 2451; [Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69, § 1], [19 Stat. 244]; [Sept. 20, 1922, ch. 350], [42 Stat. 858].)