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[CITE: 43USC107]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                    CHAPTER 4--DISTRICT LAND OFFICES
 
Sec. 107. Penalty for false information

    If any person applies to any officer designated by the Secretary of 
the Interior to enter any land whatever, and the officer knowingly and 
falsely informs the person so applying that the same has already been 
entered, and refuses to permit the person so applying to enter the same, 
such officer shall be liable therefor, to the person so applying, for $5 
for each acre of land which the person so applying offered to enter, to 
be recovered by action of debt in any court of record having 
jurisdiction of the amount.

(R.S. Sec. 2247; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 
11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2247 derived from act July 4, 1836, ch. 352, Sec. 13, 5 
Stat. 112.

                          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.
    References to ``register'' changed to ``officer designated by the 
Secretary of the Interior'' and ``officer'' on authority of section 403 
of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this 
title.
