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[CITE: 43USC122]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                        CHAPTER 5--LAND DISTRICTS
 
Sec. 122. Discontinuance of land offices by Secretary of the 
        Interior
        
    Whenever the quantity of public land remaining unsold in any land 
district is reduced to a number of acres less than one hundred thousand, 
it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to discontinue the 
land office of such district; and if any land in any such district 
remains unsold at the time of the discontinuance of a land office, the 
same shall be subject to sale at some one of the existing land offices 
most convenient to the district in which the land office has been 
discontinued, of which the Secretary of the Interior shall give notice.

(R.S. Sec. 2248.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2248 derived from act June 12, 1840, ch. 36, Sec. 2, 5 
Stat. 385.

                          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.


                            Cross References

    Annexation of district in which land office discontinued because of 
excessive costs to some other adjoining district, see section 125 of 
this title.
    Consolidation of land offices by Secretary of the Interior where 
practicable and consistent with public interest, see section 124 of this 
title.
