§ 101. Report of disqualification; designation of officer to act

Statutory text

It shall be the duty of every officer so disqualified to report the fact of his disqualification to the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate as soon as he shall ascertain it, and before the hearing of such cause, who thereupon, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall designate some other officer or special agent of the Land Department to act in the place of the disqualified officer, and the same authority is conferred on the officer so designated which such officer would otherwise have possessed to act in such case.

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.

1894
Pub. L. 53–10 § 2 · 28 Stat. 5
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 101
Jan. 11, 1894, ch. 10, § 2, 28 Stat. 26
Source evidence
Code source credit
Jan. 11, 1894, ch. 10, § 2, 28 Stat. 26
Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That for the purpose of holding terms of the district court Divisions for district court. said district shall be divided into four divisions, to be known as the southern, northern, central, and western divisions. The counties of Southern division. Clay, Union, Yankton, Turner, Lincoln, Bonhomme, Charles Mix, Douglas, Hutchinson, Brule, Aurora, Davison, Hanson, McCook, Minnehaha, Moody, Lake, Sanborn, Lyman, Miner, Gregory, Todd, Beadle and Kingsbury, Crow Creek and Lower Brule, and the Yankton Indian Reservation shall constitute the southern division, the court for which Court at Sioux Falls. Northern division. shall be held at the city of Sioux Falls. The counties of Brookings, Hamlin, Deuel, Grant, Roberts, Codington, Clark, Day, Marshall, Spink, Brown, McPherson, Edmunds, Campbell, Walworth, and the Sisseton and Wahpton Reservation shall constitute the northern division, the court for which shall be held at the city of Aberdeen. The counties of Court at Aberdeen. Central division. Potter, Sully, Faulk, Hand, Hyde, Hughes, Buffalo, Jerauld, Stanley, Nowlin, and that portion of the counties of Pratt, Jackson, and Sterling not included in any Indian Reservation, and the Standing Rock, and Cheyenne Indian Reservations shall constitute the central division, the court for which shall be held at the city of Pierre. All that portion of the Court at Pierre. Western division. State of South Dakota lying west of the central and southern divisions, and in addition thereto the Rosebud and Red Cloud Indian reservations, shall constitute the western division, the court for which shall be held Court at Deadwood at the city of Deadwood.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Notes

Statutory Notes and Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title.

Word “officer” substituted for “register” and “Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate” substituted for “Commissioner of the General Land Office” on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.

Act Mar. 3, 1925, abolished office of surveyor general and transferred administration of all activities in charge of surveyors general to Field Surveying Service under jurisdiction of United States Supervisor of Surveys.

Credits

1894–1946 · 4 acts

1894Jan. 11, 1894, ch. 10, § 2, 28 Stat. 26
1921Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114, § 1, 42 Stat. 208
1925Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145
19461946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.

Show as published

(Jan. 11, 1894, ch. 10, § 2, 28 Stat. 26; Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114, § 1, 42 Stat. 208; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)