43 U.S.C. § 129 — Office rent and clerk hire for consolidated land offices

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The Secretary of the Interior may pay a reasonable rent for each consolidated land office. The Secretary may also approve hiring clerks, paid a reasonable daily rate, for as long as the office actually needs the help. Clerk pay comes first from surplus office fees, or otherwise from the incidental-expenses appropriation, but only if the Secretary approved the hire.

The Secretary of the Interior may set a reasonable rent allowance for each consolidated land office. When satisfied that it is needed, the Secretary may also approve hiring one or more clerks, paid a reasonable amount per day, for as long as that clerical help is actually required to keep up with the office's current public business. Clerks are paid out of the surplus fees the office is allowed to charge under section 84 of this title, if a surplus exists; if no surplus exists, they are paid out of the appropriation for district land offices' incidental expenses. No clerk may be paid, however, unless the Secretary of the Interior approved that clerk's employment first.

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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make a reasonable allowance for office rent for each consolidated land office; and when satisfied of the necessity therefor, to approve the employment of one or more clerks, at a reasonable per diem compensation, for such time as such clerical force is absolutely required to keep up the current public business, which clerical force shall be paid out of the surplus fees authorized to be charged by section 84 1 of this title, if any, and if no surplus exists, then out of the appropriation for incidental expenses of district land offices; but no clerk shall be so paid unless his employment has been first sanctioned by the Secretary of the Interior.

Source credit: (R.S. § 2255; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

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