ProvidedThe Secretary of the Interior shall not pay for any land or land and water a price which shall exceed an average cost of $10 per acre: , That this provision shall not apply to any land or land and water prior to , acquired or contracted for under the provisions of this chapter.
June 7, 1924, ch. 346, § 1043 Stat. 652Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 55843 Stat. 1354May 12, 1928, ch. 53445 Stat. 50253 Stat. 1433(, ; , ; , ; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, .)
Editorial Notes
Codification
Provisions of this section, which authorized an appropriation of $1,500,000 for the acquisition of authorized areas and for all necessary expenses thereto, were omitted. The text set out above constituted the first and second provisos to the omitted provisions.
Amendments
1928—Act , substituted “which shall exceed an average cost of $10 per acre” for “which when added to the price of land or land and water theretofore purchased, shall exceed an average cost of $5 per acre”, and inserted proviso making the provision of this section inapplicable to any land or land and water prior to .
1925—Act , substituted proviso for restriction on availability of money for acquisition of areas.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
section 723 of this titleTransfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture to Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see Transfer of Functions note set out under .