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[CITE: 43USC14]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                  CHAPTER 1--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
 
Sec. 14. Returns relative to lands

    All returns relative to the public lands shall be made to the 
Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate.

(R.S. Sec. 456; July 31, 1894, ch. 174, Sec. 7, 28 Stat. 207; 1946 
Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 
1100.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 456 derived from act Apr. 25, 1812, ch. 68, Sec. 9, 2 
Stat. 717.

                          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.
    ``Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate'' 
substituted for ``Commissioner of the General Land Office'' on authority 
of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under 
section 1 of this title.
