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[CITE: 43USC947]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
      CHAPTER 22--RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS
 
Sec. 947. Map; damages to settlers

    Any canal or ditch company desiring to secure the benefits of 
sections 946 to 949 of this title shall, within twelve months after the 
location of ten miles of its canal, if the same be upon surveyed lands, 
and if upon unsurveyed lands, within twelve months after the survey 
thereof by the United States, file with the officer, as the Secretary of 
the Interior may designate, of the land office for the district where 
such land is located a map of its canal or ditch and reservoir; and upon 
the approval thereof by the Secretary of the Interior the same shall be 
noted upon the plats in said office, and thereafter all such lands over 
which such rights of way shall pass shall be disposed of subject to such 
right of way. Whenever any person or corporation, in the construction of 
any canal, ditch, or reservoir, injures or damages the possession of any 
settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage 
shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.

(Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, Sec. 19, 26 Stat. 1102; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, 
Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

                            Repeal of Section

        Section repealed by Pub. L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 706(a), Oct. 
    21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793, effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976, 
    insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, 
    under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest 
    System.


                            Savings Provision

    Repeal by Pub. L. 94-579 insofar as applicable to the issuance of 
rights-of-way not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, 
permit, patent, etc., existing on Oct. 21, 1976, see section 701 of Pub. 
L. 94-579, set out as a note under section 1701 of this title.

                          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.
    ``Officer, as the Secretary of the Interior may designate'' 
substituted for ``register'' on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan 
No. 3 of 1946, which abolished all registers of district land offices 
and transferred functions of register of district land office to 
Secretary of the Interior. See section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, 
set out as a note under section 1 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 421c, 664, 948, 949, 950, 
951 of this title.
