§ 751b. — Surveys in Nome and Fairbanks districts.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC751b]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 18--SURVEY OF PUBLIC LANDS
Sec. 751b. Surveys in Nome and Fairbanks districts
The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate,
shall furnish the land offices at Nome and Fairbanks a sufficient
quantity of numbers to be used in the different classes of official
surveys that may be made in the Nome and Fairbanks land districts to
meet the requirements thereof, and upon application by any person
desiring to have an official survey made such officers as the Secretary
of the Interior may designate shall furnish a number or numbers for such
survey or surveys, together with an order directing a qualified deputy
surveyor to make the same, and such application, order, and the fee
required to be paid shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the
Interior or such officer as he may designate: Provided, That all surveys
thus made shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior or such
officer as he may designate.
(Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2537, Sec. 4, 34 Stat. 1232; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462,
43 Stat. 1144; Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 584, Sec. 2, 56 Stat. 779; 1946 Reorg.
Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 352 of Title 48,
Territories and Insular Possessions.
Repeals
Act Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 584, Sec. 2, 56 Stat. 779, cited as a credit
to this section, was repealed by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 8(a), Sept. 6,
1966, 80 Stat. 651.
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.
Functions of Supervisor of Surveys and Registers transferred to
Secretary of the Interior or those officers as he may designate by
section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section
1 of this title.
References to ``receivers'' changed to ``registers'' by act Oct. 9,
1942, which abolished office of receiver and transferred functions to an
employee to be designated by Secretary and to be performed under title
``register''.
Act Mar. 3, 1925, abolished office of surveyor general and
transferred administration of all activities in charge of surveyors
general to Field Surveying Service under jurisdiction of United States
Supervisor of Surveys.
