Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102
§94 Reimbursement of Sums Disbursed as Special Disbursing Agents
Title 43 › CHAPTER 4 — DISTRICT LAND OFFICES › § 94
Summary
The Secretary of the Treasury must pay, from unused contingency funds for land offices, amounts that officers chosen by the Secretary of the Interior spent as special pay agents at U.S. land offices before federal money arrived, for hearing and deposit expenses. Payments cannot exceed what Congress approved for that purpose in the same fiscal year. All spending must follow the law and department rules and be authorized and approved by the Interior Secretary or the person he names.
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Title 43, §94
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The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any unexpended balances of appropriations for contingent expenses of land offices, for the expenses of hearings in land entries and the expenses of depositing public moneys, such sums as have been or may be disbursed by officers designated by the Secretary of the Interior acting as special disbursing agents at United States land offices, before the receipt of Government funds: Provided, That no payment shall be made under this section in excess of the amount appropriated by the Congress for the particular purpose in each instance and for the fiscal year in which such disbursements were made: Provided, That all such disbursements shall have been or shall be made in pursuance of law in carrying out departmental regulations or to meet authorizations by the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate: Provided further, That the accounts containing such items shall have been duly approved by the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate.
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Codification This section, as originally enacted, referred to receivers of public moneys. The office of receiver was consolidated with that of register by acts Mar. 3, 1925, and Oct. 28, 1921, under which the office of receiver was abolished. See, also,
Transfer of Functions
note below.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
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. “Officers designated by the Secretary of the Interior” substituted for “registers” and “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.
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43 U.S.C. § 94
Title 43, Public Lands
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102