Volume 9
Public Law 30–IV
to amend an Act entitled “An Act to reorganize the General Land Office,” approved July fourth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
Approved January 26, 1848
Statutory text
An Act
to amend an Act entitled “An Act to reorganize the General Land Office,” approved July fourth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That if at any time the number of patents for lands sold or granted under the authority of the United States, shall be such that they cannot be signed in reasonable time by the secretary appointed for that purpose under the sixth section of the above-recited act, that, in that case, the President shall
An assistant secretary may be employed to sign land patents.
be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint an assistant secretary, to sign the name, but the said assistant shall be employed by the express direction of the President, and only for such time as may be necessary to bring up the arrears of patents which may be ready for signature.
Approved, .