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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 3 — Surveys

§ 60. Stationery for mineral surveys

Statutory text

The stationery and drafting instruments purchased on and after , for exclusive use of the Secretary of the Interior or such officers as he may designate in the preparation of plats and field notes of mineral surveys, as also the rent of additional quarters that may be necessary for the execution of such work, shall be paid for out of the fund created by deposits made by individuals to the credit of the United States to cover the cost of office work on such mineral surveys.

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. 56–830 § 1 · 31 Stat. 960

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 60

    Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 830, § 1, 31 Stat. 1003

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 830, § 1, 31 Stat. 1003

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

Notes

Statutory Notes and 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.

“Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate” substituted for “Field Surveying Service” on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.

Previously, “Field Surveying Service” substituted for “surveyors-general” on authority of act , which abolished office of surveyor general and transferred its activities to Field Surveying Service.

Credits

1901–1946 · 3 acts
  1. 1901Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 830, § 1, 31 Stat. 1003
  2. 1925Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144
  3. 19461946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.
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(Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 830, § 1, 31 Stat. 1003; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

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