16 USC § 615a - Sale of timber in Alaska; appraisal; local consumption; accounting; deposit in Treasury

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title: "16 USC § 615a - Sale of timber in Alaska; appraisal; local consumption; accounting; deposit in Treasury"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "615a"
section_name: "Sale of timber in Alaska; appraisal; local consumption; accounting; deposit in Treasury"
chapter_number: 4
chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS"
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source_credit: "(May 14, 1898, ch. 299, § 11, 30 Stat. 414; Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114, § 1, 42 Stat. 208; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan. No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)"
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# § 615a. Sale of timber in Alaska; appraisal; local consumption; accounting; deposit in Treasury

section 615b of this title

The Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, may cause to be appraised the timber or any part thereof upon public lands in Alaska, and may from time to time sell so much thereof as he may deem proper for not less than the appraised value thereof, in such quantities to each purchaser as he shall prescribe, to be used in Alaska except as aforesaid, but not for export therefrom except as provided under . And such sales shall at all times be limited to actual necessities for consumption in Alaska from year to year, and payments for such timber shall be made to such officer as the Secretary of the Interior may designate of the local land office of the land district in which said timber may be sold, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and the moneys arising therefrom shall be accounted for by such officer as the Secretary of the Interior may designate to the Secretary of the Interior in a separate account, and shall be covered into the Treasury.

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**Source Credit**: (May 14, 1898, ch. 299, § 11, 30 Stat. 414; Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114, § 1, 42 Stat. 208; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan. No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of the first two sentences of section 11 of act , the remainder of section 11 of act , is classified to .

Section was formerly classified to , Territories and Insular Possessions.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Acts , and , consolidated offices of register and receiver and provided for a single officer to be known as register.

## Executive Documents

### 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, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, , set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Functions of Commissioner of General Land Office and registers transferred to Secretary of the Interior or that officer as the Secretary may designate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out in the Appendix to Title 5.