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[CITE: 43USC545]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
       SUBCHAPTER XIV--PATENTS AND FINAL WATER-RIGHT CERTIFICATES
 
Sec. 545. Appointment of agents to receive payments; record of 
        payments and amounts owing
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to designate such bonded 
fiscal agents or officers of the Bureau of Reclamation as he may deem 
advisable on each reclamation project, to whom shall be paid all sums 
due on reclamation entries or water rights, and the officials so 
designated shall keep a record for the information of the public of the 
sums paid and the amount due at any time on account of any entry made or 
water right purchased under the reclamation Act; and the Secretary of 
the Interior shall make provision for furnishing copies of duly 
authenticated records of entries upon payment of reasonable fees which 
copies shall be admissible in evidence, as are copies authenticated 
under section 888 \1\ of the Revised Statutes.
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    \1\ See References in Text note below.
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(Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, Sec. 4, 37 Stat. 267.)

                       References in Text

    The reclamation Act, referred to in text, probably means act June 
17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, popularly known as the 
Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.
    Section 888 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in text, was 
repealed by section 21 of act June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 862, the 
first section of which enacted Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. 
Prior to repeal, R.S. Sec. 888 was classified to section 669 of former 
Title 28, Judicial Code and Judiciary. For provisions relating to 
admissibility in evidence of authenticated copies, see section 1733 of 
Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

                         Change of Name

    ``Reclamation Service'' changed to ``Bureau of Reclamation'' by 
order of the Secretary of the Interior in June of 1923.

                          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.
