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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 25 — Unlawful Inclosures or Occupancy; Obstructing Settlement or Transit

§ 1066. Permission of Secretary to sue

Statutory text

Where the alleged unlawful inclosure includes less than one hundred and sixty acres of land, no suit shall be brought under the provisions of this chapter without authority from the Secretary of the Interior.

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. Pub. L. 48–149 § 6 · 23 Stat. 67

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 1066

    (Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 149, § 6, 23 Stat. 322.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 149, § 6, 23 Stat. 322.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 6. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly reserved: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to abridge any constitutional power which either Congress or the State of Missouri may have over the regulation of charges for freight or passengers over said bridge

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 149, § 6, 23 Stat. 322.)

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