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# 43 U.S.C. § 9 - Repealed. June 17, 1948, ch. 496, § 2(b), 62 Stat. 476

## Notes

Section, R.S. § 451; act June 19, 1878, ch. 329, 20 Stat. 183, provided for an assistant to sign land patents. See section 15 of this title.