16 USC § 729 - Price per acre

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identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s729"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "16 USC § 729 - Price per acre"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "729"
section_name: "Price per acre"
chapter_number: 8
chapter_name: "UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 7, 1924, ch. 346, § 10, 43 Stat. 652; Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 558, 43 Stat. 1354; May 12, 1928, ch. 534, 45 Stat. 502; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)"
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# § 729. Price per acre

*Provided*May 12, 1928

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: , 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.

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**Source Credit**: (June 7, 1924, ch. 346, § 10, 43 Stat. 652; Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 558, 43 Stat. 1354; May 12, 1928, ch. 534, 45 Stat. 502; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4 (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

## 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

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 .