§ 129. — Office rent and clerk hire for consolidated land offices.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC129]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 5--LAND DISTRICTS
Sec. 129. Office rent and clerk hire for consolidated land
offices
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.
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\1\ See References in Text note below.
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(R.S. Sec. 2255; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946,
11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
References in Text
Section 84 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub.
L. 86-649, title II, Sec. 202(b), July 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 507. See
section 1734 of this title.
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2255 derived from act Feb. 18, 1861, ch. 38, Sec. 2, 12
Stat. 131.
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.
Words ``by the register'' following ``to approve the employment''
omitted on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See
note set out under section 1 of this title.
