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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 1 — Bureau of Land Management

§ 16. Engrossing and recording patents

Statutory text

The engrossing and recording of patents for public lands may be done by means of typewriters or other machines, under regulations to be made by the Secretary of the Interior and approved by the President.

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. 53–177 § 3 · 28 Stat. 212

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 16

    (Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 177, § 3, 28 Stat. 807.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 177, § 3, 28 Stat. 807.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 177, § 3, 28 Stat. 807.)

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