§ 751b. Surveys in Nome and Fairbanks districts

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate, shall furnish the land offices at Nome and Fairbanks a sufficient quantity of numbers to be used in the different classes of official surveys that may be made in the Nome and Fairbanks land districts to meet the requirements thereof, and upon application by any person desiring to have an official survey made such officers as the Secretary of the Interior may designate shall furnish a number or numbers for such survey or surveys, together with an order directing a qualified deputy surveyor to make the same, and such application, order, and the fee required to be paid shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate: Provided, That all surveys thus made shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate.

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.

1907
Pub. L. 59–2537 § 4 · 34 Stat. 1232
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 751b
Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2537, § 4, 34 Stat. 1232
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2537, § 4, 34 Stat. 1232
Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. Surveys. That the surveyor-general of the district of Alaska, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall furnish the receivers of said land offices a sufficient quantity of numbers to be used in the different classes of official surveys that may be made in said Nome and Fairbanks land districts to meet the requirements thereof, and upon application by any person desiring to have an official survey made the receivers shall furnish a number or numbers for such survey or surveys, together with an order directing a qualified deputy surveyor to make the same, and such application, order, and the fee required to be paid to the surveyor-general in the district of Alaska Proviso. Approval. shall be transmitted to the surveyor-general: Provided, That all surveys thus made shall be approved by the surveyor-general as at present.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 352 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Repeals

Act Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 584, § 2, 56 Stat. 779, cited as a credit to this section, was repealed by Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 651.

Abolition of Offices of Receiver and Surveyor General and Transfer of Functions

References to “receivers” changed to “registers” by act Oct. 9, 1942, which abolished office of receiver and transferred functions to an employee to be designated by Secretary and to be performed under title “register”.

Act Mar. 3, 1925, abolished office of surveyor general and transferred administration of all activities in charge of surveyors general to Field Surveying Service under jurisdiction of United States Supervisor of Surveys.

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. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title.

Functions of Supervisor of Surveys and Registers transferred to Secretary of the Interior or those officers as he may designate by section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.

Credits

1907–1946 · 4 acts

1907Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2537, § 4, 34 Stat. 1232
1925Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144
1942Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 584, § 2, 56 Stat. 779
19461946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.

Show as published

(Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2537, § 4, 34 Stat. 1232; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 584, § 2, 56 Stat. 779; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)