Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102
§125 Annexation of Discontinued District to Adjacent District
Title 43 › CHAPTER 5 — LAND DISTRICTS › § 125
Summary
The President may close a land office and attach its district to a neighboring district when the cost of collecting revenue from public land sales in that district is at least one-third of the total revenue there, and he believes it will not harm the public interest.
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Title 43, §125
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Whenever the cost of collecting the revenue from the sales of the public lands in any land district is as much as one-third of the whole amount of revenue collected in such district, it may be lawful for the President, if, in his opinion, not incompatible with the public interest, to discontinue the land office in such district, and to annex the same to some other adjoining land district.
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Editorial Notes
Codification R.S. § 2250 derived from act Mar. 3, 1853, ch. 97, § 1, 10 Stat. 189, 194.
Executive Documents
Delegation of Functions For delegation to Secretary of the Interior of authority vested in President by this section, see Ex. Ord. No. 10250, June 5, 1951, 16 F.R. 5385, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.
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43 U.S.C. § 125
Title 43, Public Lands
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102