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Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73

§129 Office rent and clerk hire for consolidated land offices

Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 5— - LAND DISTRICTS › § 129

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior may approve a reasonable rent payment for each consolidated land office. When the Secretary decides it is needed, they may also approve hiring one or more clerks and pay them a reasonable daily rate for the time needed to handle current public business. Those clerks must be paid from any surplus fees allowed under section 84. If no surplus exists, payment may come from the appropriation for incidental expenses of district land offices. No clerk can be paid unless the Secretary first approves the hire.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §129

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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make a reasonable allowance for office rent for each consolidated land office; and when satisfied of the necessity therefor, to approve the employment of one or more clerks, at a reasonable per diem compensation, for such time as such clerical force is absolutely required to keep up the current public business, which clerical force shall be paid out of the surplus fees authorized to be charged by section 84 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, if any, and if no surplus exists, then out of the appropriation for incidental expenses of district land offices; but no clerk shall be so paid unless his employment has been first sanctioned by the Secretary of the Interior.

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 84 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 86–649, title II, § 202(b), July 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 507. See section 1734 of this title. Codification R.S. § 2255 derived from act Feb. 18, 1861, ch. 38, § 2, 12 Stat. 131.

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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. Words “by the register” following “to approve the employment” omitted on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 129

Title 43 — Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73