ADJUSTMENT OF CLAIMS BASED ON FAULTY SURVEYS A number of acts other than those of general application set forth in the text have been enacted from time to time granting preference rights and providing for the adjustment of disputes arising from faulty surveys, which due to their limited and temporary application are merely cited here: Act of October 31, 1919 (41 Stat. 325).-Adjustment of faulty surveys in designated townships in Florida. Act of April 15, 1920 (41 Stat. 553).-Relief of occupants of certain erroneously surveyed lake areas in Utah. Act of May 29, 1920 (41 Stat. 630).--Correction of titles to erroneously surveyed lands along Snake River, Idaho. Act of February 13, 1922 (42 Stat. 364).--Tenderfoot Lake, Wis. Act of March 20, 1922 (42 Stat. 467).-Relief of occupants in Coconino County, Ariz. Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 594).-Crooked and Pickerel Lakes, Mich. Act of February 27, 1925 (43 Stat. 1012).-Polk County, Fla. Act of May 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 619).-Lake County, Fla. COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND An Act Authorizing the President to appoint a commission to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- Public domain. tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, to cover any expenses which may be incurred by the President, through such methods as he may employ, in making a study and report on the conservation and administration of the public domain. Such expenditures may in- Sum authorized clude compensation and expenses of persons named for to study and rethe purposes, employment of experts, stenographic and port on conservaother services by contract if deemed necessary, transportation, travel, and subsistence, or per diem in lieu of ized. subsistence, rent of office in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of necessary books and documents, printing and binding, official cards and/or such other expenses as the President may deem necessary, without regard to the provisions of any other Act. Approved, April 10, 1930 (46 Stat. 153). for commission tion of, etc. Expenses author 97 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 66 Cross references: See "General Land Office," p. 145; "Geological Survey," p. 151; National Parks and Monuments," p. 375; "Reclamation," p. 489; "Supervisor of Surveys, Surveys, and Resurveys," p. 695." SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR Department of SEC. 437, R. S. There shall be at the seat of Govern- Establishment of ment an Executive Department to be known as the De- the Interior. partment of the Interior, and a Secretary of the Interior, Mar. 3, 1849, ch. who shall be the head thereof. (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 108 sec. 1, vol. 9, 481.) P. 395. SEC. 441, R. S. The Secretary of the Interior is charged Duties of with the supervision of public business relating to the following subjects: First. The Census; when directed by law.1 Fourth. Pensions and bounty lands." Fifth. Patents for inventions.* Sixth. The custody and distribution of publications.5 Eighth. Government Hospital for the Insane. Ninth. Columbia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 485.) Secretary. Mar. 3, 1849, 9 S., 395. SEC. 442, R. S. The Secretary of the Interior shall hereafter exercise all the powers and perform all the Powers of Secreduties in relation to the Territories of the United States tary. 217, vol. 17, p. that were, prior to March first, eighteen hundred and Mar. 1, 1873, ch. seventy-three, by law or by custom exercised and per-484. formed by the Secretary of State. (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 486.) An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to delegate to supervisory officers the power to make temporary and emergency appointments Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- Interior Departtives of the United States of America in Congress assem 1 Transferred to the Department of Commerce by sec. 4 of the act of Feb. 14, 1903 (32 Stat. 825), which created that department. The Bureau of Mines which was created in the Interior Department by the act of May 16, 1910 (36 Stat. 369), was transferred to the Department of Commerce by Executive order of Jan. 4, 1925, pursuant to the authority of sec. 12 of the act of Feb. 14, 1903 (32 Stat. 825). Transferred to the Administration of Veterans' Affairs by the act of July 3, 1930 (46 Stat. 1016). Transferred to the Department of Commerce by Executive order of Mar. 17, 1925, pursuant to the authority of sec. 12 of the act of Feb. 14, 1903 (32 Stat. 825). Transferred to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, by sec. 64 of the act of Jan. 12, 1895 (28 Stat. 601). • Control over Howard University comes under this clause. ment. |