United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
Title 16. CONSERVATION |
Chapter 8. UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE |
§ 729. Price per acre
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The 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: Provided, That this provision shall not apply to any land or land and water prior to
May 12, 1928 , acquired or contracted for under the provisions of this chapter.
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
1925—Act
Transfer Of Functions
Transfer 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 section 723 of this title.