2015 US Code
Title 43 - Public Lands (Sections 1 - 2434)
Chapter 5 - Land Districts (Sections 121 - 130)
Sec. 122 - Discontinuance of land offices by Secretary of the Interior
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS CHAPTER 5 - LAND DISTRICTS Sec. 122 - Discontinuance of land offices by Secretary of the Interior |
| Contains | section 122 |
| Date | 2015 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 3, 2016 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | R.S. §2248. |
| Statutes at Large References | 5 Stat. 385 64 Stat. 1262 |
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Whenever the quantity of public land remaining unsold in any land district is reduced to a number of acres less than one hundred thousand, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to discontinue the land office of such district; and if any land in any such district remains unsold at the time of the discontinuance of a land office, the same shall be subject to sale at some one of the existing land offices most convenient to the district in which the land office has been discontinued, of which the Secretary of the Interior shall give notice.
(R.S. §2248.)
CODIFICATIONR.S. §2248 derived from act June 12, 1840, ch. 36, §2, 5 Stat. 385.
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONSFor 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.
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