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<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">1.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Bureau of Land Management</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">2.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">United States Geological Survey</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">31</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">3.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Surveys</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">51</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">4.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">District Land Offices</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">70</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">5</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Land Districts</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">121</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">6.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Withdrawal From Settlement, Location, Sale, or Entry</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">141</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">7.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Homesteads</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">161</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">8.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center" id="wide">Timber and Stone Lands [Repealed]</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">311</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">8A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Grazing Lands</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">315</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">9.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Desert-Land Entries</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">321</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">10.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center" id="wide">Underground-Water Reclamation Grants [Repealed]</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">351</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">11.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Discovery, Development, and Marking of Water Holes, etc., by Government</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">361</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">11A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Board on Geographic Names</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">364</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">12.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">371</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">12A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Boulder Canyon Project</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">617</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">12B.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Colorado River Storage Project</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">620</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">13.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Federal Lands Included in State Irrigation Districts</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">621</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">14.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Grants of Desert Lands to States for Reclamation</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">641</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">15.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Appropriation of Waters; Reservoir Sites</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">661</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">16.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Sale and Disposal of Public Lands</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">671</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">17.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Reservation and Sale of Town Sites on Public Lands</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">711</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">18.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Survey of Public Lands</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">751</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">19.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center" id="wide">Bounty Lands [Repealed]</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">781</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">20.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Reservations and Grants to States for Public Purposes</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">851</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">21.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Grants in Aid of Railroads and Wagon Roads</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">881</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">21A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center" id="wide">Forfeiture of Northern Pacific Railroad Indemnity Land Grants [Omitted]</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">921</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">22.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Rights-of-way and Other Easements in Public Lands</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">931</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">23.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Grants of Swamp and Overflowed Lands</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">981</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">24.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center" id="wide">Drainage Under State Laws [Repealed]</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1021</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">25.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Unlawful Inclosures or Occupancy; Obstructing Settlement or Transit</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1061</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">25A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Lands Held Under Color of Title</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1068</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">26.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center" id="wide">Abandoned Military Reservations [Repealed]</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1071</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">27.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Public Lands in Oklahoma</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1091</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">28.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Public Lands</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1151</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">29.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Submerged Lands</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1301</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">30.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Administration of Public Lands</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1361</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">31.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Department of the Interior</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1451</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">32.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Colorado River Basin Project</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1501</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">32A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Colorado River Basin Salinity Control</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1571</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">32B.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Colorado River Floodway</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1600</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">33.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Alaska Native Claims Settlement</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1601</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">33A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Implementation of Alaska Native Claims Settlement and Alaska Statehood</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1631</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">34.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Trans-Alaska Pipeline</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1651</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">35.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Federal Land Policy and Management</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1701</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">36.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Outer Continental Shelf Resource Management</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1801</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">37.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Public Rangelands Improvement</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1901</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">38.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Crude Oil Transportation Systems</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2001</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">39.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Abandoned Shipwrecks</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2101</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">40.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2201</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">41.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Federal Land Transaction Facilitation</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2301</div></div>
<div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">42.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Rural Water Supply</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2401</div></div>
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<div><div class="analysis-head-left">Sec.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">1.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right" id="wide">Repealed.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">2.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Duties concerning public lands.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">3 to 5.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right" id="wide">Repealed or Omitted.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">6.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Duties of employees to certify, record, etc., patents.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">7 to 10.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right" id="wide">Repealed or Omitted.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">11.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Restriction on officers, clerks, and employees.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">12.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Seal, books, and records.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">13.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Original papers on file as evidence.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">14.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Returns relative to lands.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">15.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Issuance and signing of patents by Secretary of the Interior; delegation of authority; notice.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">16.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Engrossing and recording patents.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">17.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Plats of land surveyed.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">18.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Copies of papers filed.</div></div>
<div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">19 to 25b.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right" id="wide">Repealed.</div></div>
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<h3 class="section-head">§1. Repealed. Pub. L. 89–554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632</h3>
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<p class="note-body">Section, R.S. §446; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, provided that there shall be in the Department of the Interior a Director of the Bureau of Land Management. Provision for a Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior and for the structure of such Bureau is contained in section 403 of the 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, which is set out below.</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Transfer of Functions</h4>
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<p class="note-body">For transfer of records, property, personnel, and funds, see sections 1001 to 1003 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7875, 60 Stat. 1097, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Bureau of Land Management Created</h4>
<p class="note-body">Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, provided:</p>
<p class="note-body">"(a) The functions of the General Land Office and of the Grazing Service in the Department of the Interior are hereby consolidated to form a new agency in the Department of the Interior to be known as the Bureau of Land Management. The functions of the other agencies named in subsection (d) of this section are hereby transferred to the Secretary of the Interior.</p>
<p class="note-body">"(b) There shall be at the head of such Bureau a Director of the Bureau of Land Management, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior under the classified civil service, who shall receive a salary at the rate of $10,000 per annum, and who shall perform such duties as the Secretary of the Interior shall designate.</p>
<p class="note-body">"(c) There shall be in the Bureau of Land Management an Associate Director of the Bureau of Land Management and so many Assistant Directors of the Bureau of Land Management as may be necessary, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior under the classified civil service and subject to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and who shall perform such duties as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.</p>
<p class="note-body">"(d) The General Land Office, the Grazing Service, the offices of Commissioner of the General Land Office, Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office, Director of the Grazing Service, all Assistant Directors of the Grazing Service, all registers of the district land offices, and United States Supervisor of Surveys, together with the Field Surveying Service now known as the Cadastral Engineering Service, are hereby abolished.</p>
<p class="note-body">"(e) The Bureau of Land Management and its functions shall be administered subject to the direction and control of the Secretary of the Interior, and the functions transferred to the Secretary by subsection (a) of this section shall be performed by the Secretary or, subject to his direction and control, by such officers and agencies of the Department of the Interior as he may designate."</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§2. Duties concerning public lands</h3>
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<p class="statutory-body">The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate shall perform all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States, or in anywise respecting such public lands, and, also, such as relate to private claims of land, and the issuing of patents for all grants of land under the authority of the Government.</p>
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<p class="source-credit">(R.S. §453; Feb. 18, 1875, ch. 80, §1, 18 Stat. 317; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Codification</h4>
<p class="note-body">R.S. §453 derived from acts Apr. 25, 1812, ch. 68, §1, 2 Stat. 716; July 4, 1836, ch. 352, §1, 5 Stat. 107; June 6, 1874, ch. 223, 18 Stat. 62; Feb. 18, 1875, ch. 80, §1, 18 Stat. 317.</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Transfer of Functions</h4>
<p class="note-body">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.</p>
<p class="note-body">"The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate shall perform" substituted for "The Commissioner of the General Land Office shall perform, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior," on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Bureau of Land Management Drug Enforcement Supplemental Authority</h4>
<p class="note-body">Pub. L. 99–570, title V, subtitle C, as added by Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, §6254(d)(3), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4365, provided that:</p>
<h4 class="note-sub-head">"SEC. 5061. SHORT TITLE.</h4>
<p class="note-body">"This subtitle may be cited as the 'Bureau of Land Management Drug Enforcement Supplemental Authority Act'.</p>
<h4 class="note-sub-head">"SEC. 5062. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT AUTHORIZATION.</h4>
<p class="note-body">"In order to improve Federal law enforcement activities relating to the use and production of narcotics and controlled substances on Bureau of Land Management public lands, from amounts appropriated there are made available to the Secretary of the Interior, in addition to sums made available under other authority of law, $1,500,000 for fiscal year 1989, and for each fiscal year thereafter, to be used for the employment and training of additional and existing personnel, for equipment and facilities to be used by such personnel, and for expenses related to such employment, training, equipment, and facilities."</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§3. Repealed. Pub. L. 89–554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 636</h3>
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<p class="note-body">Section, acts July 11, 1890, ch. 667, §1, 26 Stat. 257; June 17, 1910, ch. 297, 36 Stat. 512, provided for the office of an assistant commissioner of the General Land Office, which was subsequently abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100. That Plan provided for a Bureau of Land Management, including an Associate Director and as many Assistant Directors as the Secretary of the Interior may find necessary. See note set out under section 1 of this title.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§3a. Omitted</h3>
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<h4 class="note-head">Codification</h4>
<p class="note-body">Section, act June 5, 1942, ch. 336, §1, 56 Stat. 312, provided for assistant or deputy commissioners of the General Land Office and Bureau of Indian Affairs. Insofar as it related to the General Land Office it was superseded by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. Provisions unaffected by the Plan relating to the Bureau of Indian Affairs are set out as section 2a of Title 25, Indians.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§§4, 5. Repealed. Pub. L. 89–554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 641</h3>
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<p class="note-body">Section 4, act May 22, 1908, ch. 186, 35 Stat. 225, which provided for a temporary assistant commissioner of the General Land Office, was superseded by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out as a note under section 1 of this title.</p>
<p class="note-body">Section 5, R.S. §447, provided for a recorder of the former General Land Office.</p>
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<p class="source-credit">(R.S. §459; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, §4, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)</p>
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<p class="note-body">R.S. §459 derived from acts Apr. 25, 1812, ch. 68, §8, 2 Stat. 717; July 4, 1836, ch. 352, §4, 5 Stat. 111.</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Transfer of Functions</h4>
<p class="note-body">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.</p>
<p class="note-body">"Bureau of Land Management" substituted for "General Land Office" and references to the Commissioner were changed to Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.</p>
<p class="note-body">Office of Recorder of General Land Office abolished and functions of recorder directed to be exercised under direction and supervision of Secretary of the Interior, through such officers or employees of General Land Office as he may designate, on authority of section 4 of Reorg. Plan No. III of 1940, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See also sections 8 and 9 of Reorg. Plan No. III of 1940 for provisions relating to transfer of records, property, personnel, and funds.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§7. Repealed. Pub. L. 89–554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 641</h3>
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<p class="note-body">Section, act May 22, 1908, ch. 186, 35 Stat. 225, authorized Secretary of the Interior to designate a temporary recorder for former General Land Office in certain cases. Reorg. Plan No. III of 1940, §4, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, abolished office of Recorder of former General Land Office and provided that his functions should be exercised under direction and supervision of Secretary of the Interior through those officers or employees of former General Land Office as he might designate.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§8. Omitted</h3>
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<h4 class="note-head">Codification</h4>
<p class="note-body">Section, act June 29, 1948, ch. 754, 62 Stat. 1114, provided for one clerk in the Bureau of Land Management to sign land patents, was from the Department of the Interior Appropriation Act, 1949, and was not repeated in subsequent appropriation acts.</p>
<p class="note-body">A prior section 8, R.S. §450; acts June 19, 1878, ch. 329, 20 Stat. 183; May 24, 1922, ch. 199, 42 Stat. 552; Jan. 24, 1923, ch. 42, 42 Stat. 1174; June 5, 1924, ch. 264, 43 Stat. 391; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1142; May 10, 1926, ch. 277, 44 Stat. 456; Jan. 12, 1927, ch. 27, 44 Stat. 937; Mar. 7, 1928, ch. 137, 45 Stat. 202; Mar. 4, 1929, ch. 705, 45 Stat. 1564; May 14, 1930, ch. 273, 46 Stat. 281; Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 187, 46 Stat. 1117; Apr. 22, 1932, ch. 125, 47 Stat. 92; Feb. 17, 1933, ch. 98, 47 Stat. 822; Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, 48 Stat. 364; May 9, 1935, ch. 101, 49 Stat. 180; June 22, 1936, ch. 691, 49 Stat. 1761; Aug. 9, 1937, ch. 570, 50 Stat. 568; May 9, 1938, ch. 187, 52 Stat. 295; May 10, 1939, ch. 119, 53 Stat. 691; June 18, 1940, ch. 395, 54 Stat. 411; June 28, 1941, ch. 259, 55 Stat. 309; July 2, 1942, ch. 473, 56 Stat. 511; July 12, 1943, ch. 219, 57 Stat. 455; June 28, 1944, ch. 298, 58 Stat. 468; July 3, 1945, ch. 262, 59 Stat. 322; July 1, 1946, ch. 529, 60 Stat. 352; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100; July 25, 1947, ch. 337, 61 Stat. 460, was repealed by act June 17, 1948, ch. 496, §2(a), (d), 62 Stat. 476.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§9. Repealed. June 17, 1948, ch. 496, §2(b), 62 Stat. 476</h3>
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<p class="note-body">Section, R.S. §451; act June 19, 1878, ch. 329, 20 Stat. 183, provided for an assistant to sign land patents. See section 15 of this title.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§10. Repealed. Pub. L. 89–554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, 645</h3>
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<p class="note-body">Section, acts May 24, 1922, ch. 199, 42 Stat. 555; Jan. 24, 1923, ch. 42, 42 Stat. 1177, related to depositary acting for commissioner as receiver of public moneys.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§11. Restriction on officers, clerks, and employees</h3>
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<p class="statutory-body">The officers, clerks, and employees in the Bureau of Land Management are prohibited from directly or indirectly purchasing or becoming interested in the purchase of any of the public land; and any person who violates this section shall forthwith be removed from his office.</p>
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<p class="source-credit">(R.S. §452; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Codification</h4>
<p class="note-body">R.S. §452 derived from acts Apr. 25, 1812, ch. 68, §10, 2 Stat. 717; July 4, 1836, ch. 352, §14, 5 Stat. 112.</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Transfer of Functions</h4>
<p class="note-body">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.</p>
<p class="note-body">"Bureau of Land Management" substituted for "General Land Office" on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§12. Seal, books, and records</h3>
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<p class="statutory-body">The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate shall retain the charge of the seal adopted for the Bureau of Land Management which may continue to be used, and of the records, books, papers, and other property appertaining to the Bureau of Land Management.</p>
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<p class="source-credit">(R.S. §454; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Codification</h4>
<p class="note-body">R.S. §454 derived from act Apr. 25, 1812, ch. 68, §§4, 5, 2 Stat. 717.</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Transfer of Functions</h4>
<p class="note-body">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.</p>
<p class="note-body">"Bureau of Land Management" substituted for "General Land Office" on authority of section 403 of Reorg. <!-- PDFPage:4 -->Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§13. Original papers on file as evidence</h3>
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<p class="statutory-body">Whenever the officer, as the Secretary of the Interior may designate, of any United States land office shall be served with a subpoena duces tecum or other valid legal process requiring him to produce, in any United States court or in any court of record of any State, the original application for entry of public lands or the final proof of residence and cultivation or any other original papers on file in the Bureau of Land Management of the United States on which a patent to land has been issued or which furnish the basis for such patent, it shall be the duty of such officer to at once notify the Secretary of the Interior, or such officer as he may designate, of the service of such process, specifying the particular papers he is required to produce, and upon receipt of such notice from any such officer of a United States land office the Secretary or such officer designated by him shall at once transmit to the officer of such land office the original papers specified in such notice, and which such officer is required to produce, and to attach to such papers a certificate, under seal of his office, properly authenticating them as the original papers upon which patent was issued; and such papers so authenticated shall be received in evidence in all courts of the United States and in the several State courts of the States of the Union: <i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior shall make rules and regulations to secure the return of such documents to the Bureau of Land Management, after use in evidence, without cost to the United States.</p>
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<p class="source-credit">(Apr. 19, 1904, ch. 1398, 33 Stat. 186; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Transfer of Functions</h4>
<p class="note-body">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.</p>
<p class="note-body">References to Commissioner of General Land Office and registers of United States Land Offices changed to Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate and "Bureau of Land Management" substituted for "General Land Office" on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§14. Returns relative to lands</h3>
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<p class="statutory-body">All returns relative to the public lands shall be made to the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate.</p>
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<p class="source-credit">(R.S. §456; July 31, 1894, ch. 174, §7, 28 Stat. 207; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Codification</h4>
<p class="note-body">R.S. §456 derived from act Apr. 25, 1812, ch. 68, §9, 2 Stat. 717.</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Transfer of Functions</h4>
<p class="note-body">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.</p>
<p class="note-body">"Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate" substituted for "Commissioner of the General Land Office" on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§15. Issuance and signing of patents by Secretary of the Interior; delegation of authority; notice</h3>
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<p class="statutory-body">All patents for public lands shall be issued and signed by the Secretary of the Interior in the name of the United States: <i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary may delegate his authority under this section to officers or employees of the Department of the Interior, but notice of any such delegation shall be given by publication in the Federal Register.</p>
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<p class="source-credit">(June 17, 1948, ch. 496, §1, 62 Stat. 476.)</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Prior Provisions</h4>
<p class="note-body">A prior section 15, R.S. §458; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, §4 eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, related to issuance of patents, prior to repeal by section 2(c) of act June 17, 1948.</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Transfer of Functions</h4>
<p class="note-body">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.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§16. Engrossing and recording patents</h3>
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<p class="statutory-body">The engrossing and recording of patents for public lands may be done by means of typewriters or other machines, under regulations to be made by the Secretary of the Interior and approved by the President.</p>
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<p class="source-credit">(Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 177, §3, 28 Stat. 807.)</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§17. Plats of land surveyed</h3>
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<p class="statutory-body">The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate shall, when required by the President or either House of Congress, make a plat of any land surveyed under the authority of the United States, and give such information respecting the public lands and concerning the business of the Bureau of Land Management as shall be directed.</p>
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<p class="source-credit">(R.S. §455; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Codification</h4>
<p class="note-body">R.S. §455 derived from act Apr. 25, 1812, ch. 68, §6, 2 Stat. 717.</p>
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<h4 class="note-head">Transfer of Functions</h4>
<p class="note-body">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.</p>
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<h3 class="section-head">§18. Copies of papers filed</h3>
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<p class="statutory-body">Whenever any person claiming to be interested in or entitled to land, under any grant or patent from the United States, applies to the Department of the Interior for copies of papers filed and remaining therein, in anywise affecting the title to such land, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to cause such copies to be made out and authenticated, under his hand and the seal of the Bureau of Land Management, for the person so applying.</p>
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<p class="source-credit">(R.S. §460; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)</p>
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