43 U.S.C. § 2 — Duties concerning public lands

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The Secretary of the Interior, or an officer the Secretary picks, must handle all executive duties for surveying and selling U.S. public lands. This includes duties tied to private land claims and issuing patents for government land grants.

The Secretary of the Interior — or an officer the Secretary names to do this — must carry out all executive duties connected to surveying and selling public lands belonging to the United States, and any other duties relating to those public lands. This also covers duties relating to private claims to land, and issuing patents (official documents transferring ownership) for all land grants made under government authority.

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The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate shall perform all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States, or in anywise respecting such public lands, and, also, such as relate to private claims of land, and the issuing of patents for all grants of land under the authority of the Government.

Source credit: (R.S. § 453; Feb. 18, 1875, ch. 80, § 1, 18 Stat. 317; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

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1875Enacted · Act of Feb. 18, 1875, ch. 80 · 18 Stat. 317

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