Nebraska advertiser., 1862-08-16
TPuBLIc-No. 75.1

Representatives of The United States of Ameri.
ca ia Congress assembled, That contracts for
the survey Of the public lands shall not be-
come binding upon the United States until
approved ty the Commissioner of the Gene
raj Land Office, except in such cases as said
Commissioners shall otherwise specially order.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the printed manual of instructions relating to
the public surveys, prepared ct the General
Land Office, and bearing date February twenty
second, eighteen hundred and ffty-fve, the
instructions of the Commissioner of the Cen
eral Land Office, and the special instructions
of the surveyor general, when not in conflict
with said printed manual, OF the instructions
Of said Commissioner, shall be taken and
deemed to be q part Of every contract for sur
veying the public lands of the United States.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That
the Commissioner of the General Land Office
shall have power, and it shall be his duty, to
fix the prices per mile for public surveys,
which shall in no case exceed the maximum
established by law and that, under instruc-
tons to DO prepared by said Commissioner, an.
accurate account shall be- kept by each survey
or general of the cost of surveying and platt-
ing private land claims, to be reported to the
General Land Office, with the map of such
claim, and that patents shall not issue for any
such private claim until the cost of survey
and plating shall have been paid into the.
Treasure of the United States by the claimanr.
See. 4 A1d b8et fuIldcs sGts1 1as
from ard after the FIRST day 81 dn.5 next aud
np0n the recommendation or The Comnn ions
Of Of che General Land Once, appr84od By
the Secretary 9f the Interior, the President
may order that the Territories of Utah and
Colorado shall constitute one surveying dis
trict, the duties of surveyor general in said
district to be performed by the surveyor gene
raj of Colorado and the surveying district of
Nevada shall be united to that of California,
the duties of tie surveyor general of the form
er to be transferred &c the surveyor general Of
California, and the transfer of the effects and
archives of the Offices to be made under the
instructions of the Commissioner Of the Gen
eral Land Office.
Sec. 5. And be It further enacted, That
upon the recOmmendatio of the Commission
or Of the General Land Office, approved by
the Secretary Of the Interior, the President
may order the discontinuancs of any land
Office. and the transfer of rs business and ar
chives to any otheriand Office within the same
State or Territory.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
from and after the first day of July mex the
compensation of registers and the first day Of
July next the compensation of registers and
receivers in all the land Offices in the United
shall be an annua salary of five hundred dol
lars to each with the fees and commissions
now prescribed by law, and, to DO paid by
claimants, an additional fee in donation cases
of five dollars for each final certificate for one
hundred and sixty acres, ten dollars for three
hundred and twenty acres, and fifteen dollars
for six hundred and forty acres to be account
ed for in the same manner as fees and COM
missions in warrant and REDEMPTION locations,
with limitations as to the maximum of salary
prescribed by existing laws, and in accordance
with such instructions as shall! be given by the
Commissioners of the General Office.
Sec. z. And be il further enacted, That
in regard to settlements which by existing
laws are authorized in in certain States and
Territories upon unsurveyed lands, which
privilege is hereby extended to California, the
presumption claimant shall be and is hereby.
id all cases, required, from and after the first
day Of September, eighteen hundred and sixty
two, to file his deciarstory statement within
three months from the date of the recent at
the district land Office of the approved plat
of the township embracing such pre-emption
settlement Provided, The provisions OF this
section shall not be held to authorize pre-em-
ton and settlement of mineral lands, which
are hereby exempted from the provisions of
this act.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
from and after the first day of July next, and
until otherwise ordered by the PRECEDENT the
dntiar of fhe register and receiver Of New
Mexico shall Be transferred to and d~evolved
upon they surveyor general Of that Territory,
and L shall and may Be lawful for the Prssi.
dent - like mannsFs 70 transfer the duties Of
register aud receiver in any district to the sur
veyOr general where the public interest may
require such transfer.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
from and after the first day of July next the
salary of the surveyor general of California
shall not exceed three thousand dollars per
annum. and salaries Of the surveyor general
of Oregon and Washington shall not exceed
two thousand five hundred dollars each per
apnum. end should the surveying districts of
| Utah and Nevada be hereafter established by
order of the President, each rs an independent
district. the salaries of the surveyor general
shall not exceed three thousand dollars each
for said districts.
Sec. 10. And be il further enacted, That
when the settlers IN any townships, not mine
raj or reserved by Government, shall desire a
survey made Of the same, under the suthori-
tv of the surveyor general of the United
| States depository, to the credit Of the United
States a sufficient sum 70 pay for such survey
together with all expenses incident thereto,
without cost or claim for indemnity on the
United States, it shall and may be lawful for
said surveyor general, under such Instructions
as NAV be given him by the Commissioner Of
the General Land Office, and in accordance
with existing laws and instructions, to survey
such township or townships. and make return
thereof to the general and proper local land
Office Provided, The townships so proposed
to be surveyed are within the range Of the
regular process Of the public surveys embrac-
ed by existing standard linesor bases for the
townships and subdivisional Surveys.