Chapter 114. For the consolidation of the offices of register and receiver in district land offices in certain cases, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 114.— An Act For the consolidation of the offices of register and receiver in district land offices in certain cases, and for other purposes. October 28, 1921.[[S. 71](/us/bill/67/s/71).][[Public, No. 84](/us/pl/67/84).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Offices of register and receiver may be consolidated.Conditions.[R. S., sec. 2234, p. 392, amended](/us/rs/s2234/p392). That the President is authorized to consolidate the offices of register and receiver in any district land office, and to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register for such land office and to abolish the office of receiver of such land office upon sixty days’ notice of such abolition mailed to such register and receiver whenever the total compensation for both register and receiver of such land office shall fall below the sum of $4,000 per annum, and in his opinion the interests of the service warrant such abolition.
Register to perform duties of receiver.Within sixty days after the mailing of such notice the office of receiver of such land office shall cease to exist, and all the powers, duties, obligations, and penalties imposed by law upon both register and receiver of such office shall be exercised by and imposed upon the register so appointed, who shall be paid a salary of $500 per annum, together with the fees and commissions otherwise allowable *Proviso*.Maximum compensation.to both register and receiver: *Provided*, That the salary, fees, and commissions of such register shall not exceed $3,000 per annum.
Sec. 2. Acting register in case of vacancy. That in case of a vacancy in the office of register by reason of death, resignation, or removal, or in case of inability to act, the Secretary of the Interior may designate for the period of such vacancy or inability to act the chief clerk of such office, or any other qualified employee of the Department of the Interior to act as register, subject to the filing of such bond or bonds as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and the same authority is conferred upon the person so designated which such register lawfully possesses, except that no contest or protest shall be decided or disposed of by such clerk or employee, but all such decisions shall be deferred until the appointment or return of the register.
Approved, October 28, 1921.