Duties concerning public lands
United States Code
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- 2026BURGUM D. Alaska
- 2023Vernon Fiehler v. T. Anthony Mecklenburg, Catherine Mecklenburg, State of Alaska, City & Borough of Juneau, and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Alaska
- 2020Silver State Land LLC v. United States Fed. Cl.
- 2018Solenex LLC v. Jewell D.D.C.
- 2018Moncrief v. U.S. Dep't of Interior D.D.C.
- 2018Moncrief v. United States Department of Interior D.D.C.
- 2018Solenex LLC v. Zinke D.D.C.
- 2016Silver State Land, LLC v. Schneider D.C. Cir.
- 2015Silver State Land, LLC v. Schneider D.D.C.
- 2013McMaster v. United States 9th Cir.
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The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate shall perform all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States, or in anywise respecting such public lands, and, also, such as relate to private claims of land, and the issuing of patents for all grants of land under the authority of the Government. (Source: (R.S. § 453; Feb. 18, 1875, ch. 80, § 1, 18 Stat. 317; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.))