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§ 128. —  Division or change of boundaries; continuance of business of original district.



[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC128]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                        CHAPTER 5--LAND DISTRICTS
 
Sec. 128. Division or change of boundaries; continuance of 
        business of original district
        
    In case of the division of existing land districts by the erection 
of new ones, or by a change of boundaries by the President, all business 
in such original districts shall be entertained and transacted without 
prejudice or change, until the offices in the new districts are duly 
opened by public announcement under the direction of the Secretary of 
the Interior. All sales or disposals of the public lands heretofore 
regularly made at any land office, after such lands have been made part 
of another district by any Act of Congress, or by any act of the 
President, are confirmed, provided the same are free from conflict with 
prior valid rights.

(R.S. Sec. 2254.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2254 derived from act May 31, 1872, ch. 241, 17 Stat. 192.

                          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, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out 
under section 1451 of this title.



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