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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 2 — United States Geological Survey

§ 32. Acting Director

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior may authorize one of the geologists to act as Director of the United States Geological Survey in the absence of that officer.

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. 53–174 § 1 · 28 Stat. 162

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 32

    July 31, 1894, ch. 174, § 1, 28 Stat. 197

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 31, 1894, ch. 174, § 1, 28 Stat. 197

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    First. The Auditor for the Treasury Department shall receive and examine all accounts of salaries and incidental expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury and all bureaus and offices under his direction, all accounts relating to the customs service, public debt, internal revenue, Treasurer and assistant treasurers, mints and assay offices. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Revenue-Cutter Service, Lifesaving Service, Light-House Board, Marine-Hospital Service, public buildings. Steamboat Inspection Service, immigration, navigation, Secret Service, Alaskan fur seal fisheries, and to all other business within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Treasury, and certify the balances arising thereon to the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“United States Geological Survey” substituted in text for “Geological Survey” pursuant to provision of title I of Pub. L. 102–154, set out as a note under section 31 of this title.

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. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title.

Credits

1894–1991 · 2 acts
  1. 1894July 31, 1894, ch. 174, § 1, 28 Stat. 197
  2. 1991Pub. L. 102–154, title I, , 105 Stat. 1000.
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(July 31, 1894, ch. 174, § 1, 28 Stat. 197; Pub. L. 102–154, title I, , 105 Stat. 1000.)

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