Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 2 — United States Geological Survey
§ 49. Extension of cooperative work to Puerto Rico
Statutory text
The provisions of law authorizing the making of topographic and geological surveys and conducting investigations relating to mineral and water resources by the United States Geological Survey in various portions of the United States be, and the same are, extended to authorize such surveys and investigations in Puerto Rico.
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. 74–268 · 49 Stat. 386
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 49
(June 17, 1935, ch. 268, 49 Stat. 386.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 17, 1935, ch. 268, 49 Stat. 386.)
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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
(June 17, 1935, ch. 268, 49 Stat. 386.)