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[CITE: 43USC123a]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                        CHAPTER 5--LAND DISTRICTS
 
Sec. 123a. Continuation of existing land districts and offices 
        in Alaska; change of district boundaries, or discontinuance of 
        districts; designation and location of land offices
        
    Subject to the authority conferred upon the Secretary of the 
Interior by this section, the land districts and land offices existing 
in Alaska on October 9, 1942 are continued. The Secretary of the 
Interior is authorized and empowered in his discretion to change the 
boundaries of, or discontinue, any land district in Alaska, and in lieu 
thereof to designate such land district, or land region, as, in his 
opinion, is necessary for the transaction of the business relating to 
the public lands in the Territory and to designate or change the 
location of any land office for such land district or land region.

(Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 584, Sec. 6, 56 Stat. 779.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 365 of Title 48, 
Territories and Insular Possessions.


                Land Districts and Land Offices Continued

    Provisions of acts Feb. 14, 1902, ch. 17, Sec. 1, 32 Stat. 20; Mar. 
2, 1907, ch. 2537, Sec. 1, 34 Stat. 1232, which constituted former 
section 365 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions, and were 
repealed by section 7 of Act Oct. 9, 1942, which enacted this section, 
read as follows: ``There shall be two land districts in Alaska, the 
boundaries of which shall be designated by the President, to be known as 
the Nome land district and the Fairbanks land district, with the land 
offices located, respectively, at Nome, Alaska, and Fairbanks, Alaska, 
and one other land district and land office, the location of which shall 
be fixed by the President.''
