Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 5 — Land Districts
§ 123a. Continuation of existing land districts and offices in Alaska; change of district boundaries, or discontinuance of districts; designation and location of land offices
Statutory text
Subject to the authority conferred upon the Secretary of the Interior by this section, the land districts and land offices existing in Alaska on are continued. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and empowered in his discretion to change the boundaries of, or discontinue, any land district in Alaska, and in lieu thereof to designate such land district, or land region, as, in his opinion, is necessary for the transaction of the business relating to the public lands in the Territory and to designate or change the location of any land office for such land district or land region.
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.
Pub. L. 77–584 § 6 · 56 Stat. 778
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 123a
(Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 584, § 6, 56 Stat. 779.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 584, § 6, 56 Stat. 779.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 6. Subject to the authority conferred upon the Secretary of the Continuance of existing districts and offices. Interior by this section, the land districts and land offices existing in Alaska on the date of the approval of this Act are hereby continued. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered Changes authorized. in his discretion to change the boundaries of, or discontinue, any land district in Alaska, and in lieu thereof to designate such land district, or land region, as, in his opinion, is necessary for the transaction of the business relating to the public lands in the Territory and to designate or change the location of any land office for such land district or land region.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 365 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Land Districts and Land Offices Continued
Provisions of acts Feb. 14, 1902, ch. 17, § 1, 32 Stat. 20; Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2537, § 1, 34 Stat. 1232, which constituted former section 365 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions, and were repealed by section 7 of Act , which enacted this section, read as follows: “There shall be two land districts in Alaska, the boundaries of which shall be designated by the President, to be known as the Nome land district and the Fairbanks land district, with the land offices located, respectively, at Nome, Alaska, and Fairbanks, Alaska, and one other land district and land office, the location of which shall be fixed by the President.”
Credits
(Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 584, § 6, 56 Stat. 779.)