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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 13 — Federal Lands Included in State Irrigation Districts

§ 629. Delivery of notices required by State law; right to hearing, appeal, etc.

Statutory text

All notices required by the irrigation district laws mentioned in this chapter shall, as soon as such notices are issued, be delivered to the officer designated by the Secretary of the Interior of the proper land office in cases where unpatented lands are affected thereby, and to the entryman whose unpatented lands are included therein, and the United States and such entryman shall be given the same rights to be heard by petition, answer, remonstrance, appeal, or otherwise as are given to persons holding lands in private ownership, and all entrymen shall be given the same rights of redemption as are given to the owners of lands held in private ownership.

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. 64–319 § 7 · 39 Stat. 506

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 629

    Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, § 7, 39 Stat. 509

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, § 7, 39 Stat. 509

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 7. That all notices required by the irrigation district laws Issue of notices. mentioned in this act shall, as soon as such notices are issued, be delivered to the register and receiver of the proper land office in cases where unpatented lands are affected thereby, and to the entryman whose unpatented lands are included therein, and the United States, Appeals, etc. and such entryman shall be given the same rights to be heard by petition, answer, remonstrance, appeal, or otherwise as are given to persons holding lands in private ownership, and all entrymen shall be given the same rights of redemption as are given to the owners of lands held in private ownership.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

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.

“Officer designated by the Secretary of the Interior” substituted for “register” on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, which abolished all registers of district land offices and transferred functions of register of district land office to Secretary of the Interior. See section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. Previously, reference to “receiver” was changed to “register” by acts and .

Credits

1916–1946 · 4 acts
  1. 1916Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, § 7, 39 Stat. 509
  2. 1921Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114, § 1, 42 Stat. 208
  3. 1925Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145
  4. 19461946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.
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(Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, § 7, 39 Stat. 509; Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114, § 1, 42 Stat. 208; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

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