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B-80025 1 (1948-10-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadahc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 13-80025 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON 25 -.1 The Honorable, The Secretary of the Interior. IOCT 1-- )r dear Mr. Seretary. I have your letter of Septmber 3, 19438 as follwes I enclos, letters dated Juan 17 and Augst 10 fro& Assistant Attorney 'GOenral Venech addressed to Mr. Clifford Z. Fixs Chief Consel of the Bureat of Reclamation of this Department. These lettArs relate to the handling of title utters in conne*tm with the acquisition by the Bureau of Reclamatiet of lands and interests in lands acqured under the Federal Realaation Lowa (Aet f Jan 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and acts asdatry thereof or euppmental thereto) and the tt of October ts, 191o (5h Stat. 1119), as mended. You ill recall that in an opinion dated September 26 196, the Attorney General concluded that R. S. 355s as aended (tD U.S.C. 255), requires him to pass on the sufficiency of title. to lands acquired for the construction and operation of works authorised indar the Federal Reelamtian Lava. A copy of that ePinion and of an earlier opinion, to the contrary, of the Aotigns Solicitor of this .partmaent arc enclosed for your conveniene. While this 'epart- mnst believes that a different legal coclusien could and should bave been reached by the Attorney General, painerus cnterenaes have been held by reprsntatives of this Depariant with those of the Departmnt of Justice in an effort to formu2ate a aethod of proceche hasmwsising, as far as possible, the requirements of the Atterney General with those arising trem the practical aspeets of the Bureau'e land acquisition program. Te letter of Jne 17 frcs Assistant Attorney General Vanchb to which I have referred, contains a statement of the coneausions of the D)pArtmnt of Justice as to the procedure required to be followed in title matters by the Bureau of telantion. Of partic- ular interest to us is the provistau that n I.. if the abstracts of title disclose that the Yedara' titles are free fr doubt of consequens Or when the certficateS of title or title iasuranee policies, obtained frem title companies approved by this apartment, report the tites to be fr*e tem ob- jections eeat thos which may be satisfied by the pamnt of 7Th-( / 7 TI JRT

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