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[CITE: 43USC51]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                           CHAPTER 3--SURVEYS
 
Sec. 51. Omitted


                          Codification

    Section, act Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144, which abolished 
office of surveyor general and transferred its functions to Field 
Surveying Service under Supervisor of Surveys, was superseded by Reorg. 
Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 
1100. See note set out under section 1 of this title.
    The office of surveyor general abolished in certain States by acts 
July 31, 1876, ch. 246, 19 Stat. 121, and Oct. 2, 1888, ch. 1069, 25 
Stat. 525, and discontinued in others pursuant to R.S. Sec. 2218.
    So far as they were not already superseded or obsolete by reason of 
abolition or discontinuance of the office, or otherwise, the following 
provisions were superseded by former provisions of this section:
    R.S. Sec. 2207, providing for appointment of surveyors general in 
States and territories therein named, and acts Apr. 10, 1890, ch. 77, 
Sec. 1, 26 Stat. 53, and July 24, 1897, ch. 14, Sec. 2, 30 Stat. 215, 
providing for surveyors general in North and South Dakota and Alaska;
    R.S. Secs. 2208 to 2211; acts Apr. 10, 1890, ch. 77, Sec. 2, 26 
Stat. 53; July 24, 1897, ch. 14, Sec. 3, 30 Stat. 215, concerning 
salaries of particular surveyors general;
    R.S. Secs. 2212 to 2214, concerning number and location, of offices, 
and place of residence, of surveyors general.
    R.S. Secs. 2215 and 2216, concerning bonds of surveyors general;
    R.S. Sec. 2217, concerning duration of term of office of surveyors 
general;
    R.S. Secs. 2226 and 2227, concerning allowances for clerk hire and 
office expenses;
    Act Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 211, 27 Stat. 709, relative to consolidation 
of offices of two or more surveyors general; and provisions of act May 
24, 1922, ch. 199, 42 Stat. 556, and prior acts concerning detail of 
clerks from office of one surveyor general to another.
