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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 5 — Land Districts

§ 124. Consolidation of land offices

Statutory text

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to consolidate the district land offices where practicable and consistent with the public interests.

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. 52–380 § 1 · 27 Stat. 349

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 124

    (Aug. 5, 1892, ch. 380, § 1, 27 Stat. 368.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 5, 1892, ch. 380, § 1, 27 Stat. 368.)

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Appropriations

Act Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 208, 27 Stat. 591, required the Secretary of the Interior to consolidate the district land offices so as to bring the total compensation of the registers and receivers for the fiscal year 1894, within the appropriation made therefor by the sundry Civil Appropriation Act for that year, which was fixed at $520,000.

Credits

(Aug. 5, 1892, ch. 380, § 1, 27 Stat. 368.)

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