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[CITE: 30USC46]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
           CHAPTER 2--MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
 
Sec. 46. Additional land districts and officers

    The President is authorized to establish additional land districts, 
and to appoint the necessary officers under existing laws, wherever he 
may deem the same necessary for the public convenience in executing the 
provisions of sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 
52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43.

(R.S. Sec. 2343.)

                       References in Text

    Sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 
76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were 
in the original ``this chapter'', meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the 
Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. Secs. 2318 to 2352.

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2343 derived from act July 26, 1866, ch. 262, Sec. 7, 14 
Stat. 252.

                         Delegation of Functions

    For delegation to the Secretary of the Interior of authority vested 
in the President by this section, see Ex. Ord. No. 10250, June 5, 1951, 
16 F.R. 5385, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The 
President.


                           Submerged Lands Act

    Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by 
the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 
42, 47, 48, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1.
