§ 364. Investigation of applicant for lease or contract

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1891

   Pub. L. 51–533 § 4 · 26 Stat. 842

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 364

   Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 533, § 4, 26 Stat. 843

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 533, § 4, 26 Stat. 843

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior, before executing any Investigation to determine if persons are interested in more than one bathhouse. lease to bathhouses or bathhouse sites on the permanent reservation or contracts for the use of hot water for bathhouses off the permanent reservation, may make due investigation to ascertain whether the person, persons, or corporation applying for such lease or contract are not, directly or indirectly, interested in any manner whatever in any other bathhouse lease, interest, or privilege at or near Hot Springs, Arkansas, or whether he or they belong to any pool, combination, or association so interested, or whether he or they are members or stockholders in any corporation so interested, or, if a corporation, whether its members or any of them are members or stockholders of any other corporation or association interested in any other’ bathhouse, lease, interest, or privilege as aforesaid, and in order to arrive at the facts in any such case he is authorized to send Secretary of the Interior to make all regulations, etc. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 533-535. 1891. for persons and papers, administer oaths to witnesses, and require affidavits from applicants; and any such person making a false oath or affidavit in the premises shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and, upon conviction, subject to all the pains and penalties of perjury Forfeiture for pooling, etc. under the statutes of the United States; and whenever, either at the time of leasing or other time it appears to the satisfaction of the said Secretary that such interest in other bathhouse, lease, interest, or privilege exists, or at any time any pool or combination exists between any two or more bathhouses or he deems it for the best interests of the management of the Hot Springs Reservation and waters, or for the public interest he may refuse such lease, license, permit or other privilege, or forfeit any lease or privilege wherein the parties interested have become otherwise interested as aforesaid.

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