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Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73

§60 Stationery for mineral surveys

Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 3— - SURVEYS › § 60

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Pay for stationery and drafting tools bought on or after March 3, 1901, that are only for the Secretary of the Interior or people he chooses to prepare plats and field notes for mineral surveys must come from a fund made from deposits that individuals pay to the United States to cover office work on those surveys. Rent for any extra office space needed to do that work must also be paid from the same fund.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §60

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The stationery and drafting instruments purchased on and after March 3, 1901, for exclusive use of the Secretary of the Interior or such officers as he may designate in the preparation of plats and field notes of mineral surveys, as also the rent of additional quarters that may be necessary for the execution of such work, shall be paid for out of the fund created by deposits made by individuals to the credit of the United States to cover the cost of office work on such mineral surveys.

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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. “Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate” substituted for “Field Surveying Service” on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title. Previously, “Field Surveying Service” substituted for “surveyors-general” on authority of act Mar. 3, 1925, which abolished office of surveyor general and transferred its activities to Field Surveying Service.

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43 U.S.C. § 60

Title 43 — Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73