Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 8 — Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
§ 729. Price per acre
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior shall not pay for any land or land and water a price which shall exceed an average cost of $10 per acre: Provided, That this provision shall not apply to any land or land and water prior to , acquired or contracted for under the provisions of this chapter.
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.
The Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge Act
Pub. L. 68–346 § 10 · 43 Stat. 650
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 729
June 7, 1924, ch. 346, § 10, 43 Stat. 652
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 7, 1924, ch. 346, § 10, 43 Stat. 652Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 10. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be available until expended, the sum of $1,500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the acquisition of any areas authorized by this Act to be acquired for such refuge and for all necessary expense Conditions. incident to the acquisition of such areas; but no money shall be available for the acquisition of any area until the Secretary of Agriculture has ascertained that all of the areas to be acquired under this Act will be acquired within the amounts appropriated or authorized Post, p. 1354. to be appropriated therefor and at an average price not in excess of $5 per acre, and not in excess of the average selling price, during the years 1921, 1922, and 1923, of comparable lands within the vicinity of such areas.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Provisions of this section, which authorized an appropriation of $1,500,000 for the acquisition of authorized areas and for all necessary expenses thereto, were omitted. The text set out above constituted the first and second provisos to the omitted provisions.
Amendments1925–1928 · 2 rounds
1928
Act , substituted “which shall exceed an average cost of $10 per acre” for “which when added to the price of land or land and water theretofore purchased, shall exceed an average cost of $5 per acre”, and inserted proviso making the provision of this section inapplicable to any land or land and water prior to .
1925
Act , substituted proviso for restriction on availability of money for acquisition of areas.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture to Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 723 of this title.
Credits
1924–1939 · 4 acts
- 1924June 7, 1924, ch. 346, § 10, 43 Stat. 652
- 1925Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 558, 43 Stat. 1354
- 1928May 12, 1928, ch. 534, 45 Stat. 502
- 19391939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.
Show as published
(June 7, 1924, ch. 346, § 10, 43 Stat. 652; Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 558, 43 Stat. 1354; May 12, 1928, ch. 534, 45 Stat. 502; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)