Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73not60
§379 Purchase of Scientific Books, Law Books, Etc.
Title 43 › Chapter 12— RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › Subchapter I— GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 379
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior can approve buying law and reference books, magazines, and engineering or statistical publications needed for surveys under the June 17, 1902 law that funds irrigation works from public land sales.
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Title 43, §379
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The Secretary of the Interior may authorize the purchase of such law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications as are needed in carrying out the surveys and examinations authorized by the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories for the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands.”
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Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, referred to in text, is act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, popularly known as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
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note set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.
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43 U.S.C. § 379
Title 43 — Public Lands
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
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