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Matched Legal Cases: ['§751', '§2395', '§403', '§1', '§2395', '§2', '§3', '§8', '§751', '§751', '§4', '§2', '§403', '§2', '§8', '§752', '§2396', '§403', '§2396', '§2', '§753', '§2397', '§2397', '§1', '§754', '§1', '§2398', '§2399', '§2400', '§1', '§757', '§403', '§758', '§759', '§2401', '§1', '§403', '§2401', '§10', '§760', '§2402', '§2402', '§761', '§403', '§762', '§2403', '§2', '§2403', '§763', '§403', '§764', '§1', '§2404', '§2405', '§766', '§2406', '§2406', '§1', '§16', '§767', '§1', '§2407', '§768', '§4', '§2408', '§2409', '§770', '§2410', '§2', '§2410', '§4', '§771', '§1', '§2411', '§772', '§705', '§705', '§773', '§403', '§774', '§2413', '§2413', '§2', '§775']

[USC02] 43 USC Ch. 18: SURVEY OF PUBLIC LANDS
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43 USC Ch. 18: SURVEY OF PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 18—SURVEY OF PUBLIC LANDS
Rules of survey.
751a.
Survey system extended to Alaska.
Surveys in Nome and Fairbanks districts.
Boundaries and contents of public lands; how ascertained.
Lines of division of half quarter sections; how run.
754 to 756. Repealed.
Cost of survey of private land claims to be reported and paid.
Delivery of patent contingent on refund of cost of survey.
Survey for and by settlers in township.
Deposit for expenses deemed an appropriation.
Repayment of excess of deposits to cover cost of surveys of mineral lands.
Deposits made by settlers for surveys to go in part payment of lands.
Deposits in Louisiana applicable to resurveys.
764, 765.
Geological surveys, extension of public surveys, expenses of subdividing.
Rectangular mode of survey; departure from.
Resurveys or retracements to mark boundaries of undisposed lands.
Resurveys or retracements of township lines, etc.
Protection of surveyor by marshal.
§751. Rules of survey
(R.S. §2395; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100; Apr. 29, 1950, ch. 134, §1, 64 Stat. 92.)
R.S. §2395 derived from acts May 18, 1796, ch. 29, §2, 1 Stat. 465; May 10, 1800, ch. 55, §3, 2 Stat. 73; Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 105, 19 Stat. 348.
In par. "Eighth", reference to "United States Supervisor of Surveys," changed to "Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate,"; "office of the Field Surveying Service" changed to "office of the Secretary of the Interior or of such agency as he may designate,"; and "General Land Office" changed to "Bureau of Land Management", on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.
Pub. L. 100–409, §8, Aug. 20, 1988, 102 Stat. 1091, provided that:
"(a) Study.—The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct an assessment of the need for and cost and benefits associated with improvements in the existing methods of land surveying and mapping and of collecting, storing, retrieving, disseminating, and using information about Federal and other lands.
"(b) Consultation.—In conducting the assessment required by this section, the Secretary of the Interior shall consult with the following—
"(1) the Secretary of Agriculture;
"(2) the Secretary of Commerce;
"(3) the Director of the National Science Foundation;
"(4) representatives of State and local governments;
"(5) representatives of private sector surveying and mapping science.
"(c) Report.—No later than one year after the day of enactment of this Act [Aug. 20, 1988], the Secretary of the Interior shall report to the Congress concerning the results of the assessment required by this section.
"(d) Topics.—In the report required by subsection (c), the Secretary of the Interior shall include a discussion and evaluation of the following:
"(1) relevant recommendations made by the National Academy of Sciences (National Research Council) on the concept of a multipurpose cadastre from time to time prior to the date of enactment of this Act [Aug. 20, 1988];
"(2) ongoing activities concerning development of an overall reference frame for land and resource information, including but not limited to a geodetic network, a series of current and accurate large-scale maps, cadastral overlay maps, unique identifying numbers linking specific land parcels to a common index of all land records in United States cadastral systems, and a series of land data files;
"(3) ways to achieve better definition of the roles of Federal and other governmental agencies and the private sector in dealing with land information systems;
"(4) ways to improve the coordination of Federal land information activities; and
"(5) model standards developed by the Secretary for compatible multipurpose land information systems for use by Federal, State and local governmental agencies, the public, and the private sector.
"(e) Recommendations.—The report required by subsection (c) may also include such recommendations for legislation as the Secretary of the Interior considers necessary or desirable."
§751a. Survey system extended to Alaska
The system of public land surveys is extended to the Territory of Alaska.
(Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 424, 30 Stat. 1098.)
Section was formerly classified to section 351 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Section is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, 1900.
§751b. Surveys in Nome and Fairbanks districts
(Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2537, §4, 34 Stat. 1232; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 584, §2, 56 Stat. 779; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Act Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 584, §2, 56 Stat. 779, cited as a credit to this section, was repealed by Pub. L. 89–554, §8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 651.
References to "receivers" changed to "registers" by act Oct. 9, 1942, which abolished office of receiver and transferred functions to an employee to be designated by Secretary and to be performed under title "register".
§752. Boundaries and contents of public lands; how ascertained
The boundaries and contents of the several sections, half-sections, and quarter-sections of the public lands shall be ascertained in conformity with the following principles:
First. All the corners marked in the surveys, returned by the Secretary of the Interior or such agency as he may designate, shall be established as the proper corners of sections, or subdivisions of sections, which they were intended to designate; and the corners of half- and quarter-sections, not marked on the surveys, shall be placed as nearly as possible equidistant from two corners which stand on the same line.
Second. The boundary lines, actually run and marked in the surveys returned by the Secretary of the Interior or such agency as he may designate, shall be established as the proper boundary lines of the sections, or subdivisions, for which they were intended, and the length of such lines as returned, shall be held and considered as the true length thereof. And the boundary lines which have not been actually run and marked shall be ascertained, by running straight lines from the established corners to the opposite corresponding corners; but in those portions of the fractional townships where no such opposite corresponding corners have been or can be fixed, the boundary lines shall be ascertained by running from the established corners due north and south or east and west lines, as the case may be, to the watercourse, Indian boundary line, or other external boundary of such fractional township.
Third. Each section or subdivision of section, the contents whereof have been returned by the Secretary of the Interior or such agency as he may designate, shall be held and considered as containing the exact quantity expressed in such return; and the half sections and quarter sections, the contents whereof shall not have been thus returned, shall be held and considered as containing the one-half or the one-fourth part, respectively, of the returned contents of the section of which they may make part.
(R.S. §2396; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
R.S. §2396 derived from act Feb. 11, 1805, ch. 14, §2, 2 Stat. 313.
In pars. "First", "Second" and "Third", reference to "Field Surveying Service" changed to "Secretary of the Interior or such agency as he may designate", on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.
§753. Lines of division of half quarter sections; how run
(R.S. §2397.)
R.S. §2397 derived from acts Apr. 24, 1820, ch. 51, §1, 3 Stat. 566; Apr. 5, 1832, ch. 65, 4 Stat. 503.
§§754 to 756. Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
Section 754, R.S. §2398, related to binding effect of contracts for surveys.
Section 755, R.S. §2399; acts Oct. 1, 1890, ch. 1262, 26 Stat. 650; Aug. 15, 1894, ch. 288, 28 Stat. 285; Apr. 26, 1902, ch. 592, 32 Stat. 120; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144, related to various surveying instructions which were to be deemed part of every contract for survey.
Section 756, R.S. §2400; act Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, §1, 18 Stat. 384, related to establishment of prices of surveys.
§757. Cost of survey of private land claims to be reported and paid
(July 31, 1876, ch. 246, 19 Stat. 121; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
"Field Surveying Service" changed to "Secretary of the Interior or such agency as he may designate" and "General Land Office" changed to "Bureau of Land Management", on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.
§758. Delivery of patent contingent on refund of cost of survey
In all cases of the survey of private land claims the cost of the same shall be refunded to the Treasury by the owner before the delivery of the patent.
(Mar. 3, 1885, ch. 360, 23 Stat. 499.)
§759. Survey for and by settlers in township
When the settlers in any township not mineral or reserved by the Government, or persons and associations lawfully possessed of coal lands and otherwise qualified to make entry thereof, or when the owners or grantees of public lands of the United States, under any law thereof, desire a survey made of the same under the authority of such agency as the Secretary of the Interior may designate and shall file an application therefor in writing, and shall deposit in a proper United States depository to the credit of the United States a sum sufficient to pay for such survey, together with all expenditures incident thereto, without cost or claim for indemnity on the United States, it shall be lawful for such agency, under such instructions as may be given by the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate, and in accordance with law, to survey such township or such public lands owned by said grantees of the Government, and make return therefor to the general and proper local land office: Provided, That no application shall be granted unless the township so proposed to be surveyed is within the range of the regular progress of the public surveys embraced by existing standard lines or bases for township and subdivisional surveys.
(R.S. §2401; Aug. 20, 1894, ch. 302, §1, 28 Stat. 423; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
R.S. §2401 derived from act May 30, 1862, ch. 86, §10, 12 Stat. 410.
References to "the Field Surveying Service" changed to "such agency as the Secretary of the Interior may designate" and "such agency,", respectively; and "Commissioner of the General Land Office" changed to "Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate", on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.
§760. Deposit for expenses deemed an appropriation
(R.S. §2402.)
R.S. §2402 derived from Res. July 1, 1864, No. 60, 13 Stat. 414.
§761. Repayment of excess of deposits to cover cost of surveys of mineral lands
(Feb. 24, 1909, ch. 180, 35 Stat. 645; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
References to "the United States Field Surveying Service" and "the Field Surveying Service" changed to "such agency as the Secretary of the Interior may designate", and "the office of such agency", respectively; and "Commissioner of the General Land Office" changed to "Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate", on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.
§762. Deposits made by settlers for surveys to go in part payment of lands
(R.S. §2403; Apr. 27, 1876, ch. 84, 19 Stat. 38; Mar. 3, 1879, ch. 170, 20 Stat. 352; Aug. 20, 1894, ch. 302, §2, 28 Stat. 423.)
R.S. §2403 derived from acts Mar. 3, 1871, ch. 127, 16 Stat. 581; Apr. 27, 1876, ch. 84, 19 Stat. 38.
§763. Deposits in Louisiana applicable to resurveys
Such sums as have been or may be deposited for surveys in Louisiana by actual settlers, under sections 759, 760, and 762 of this title, may be, in whole or in part, employed in making such resurveys as may be necessary in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate.
(Aug. 7, 1882, ch. 433, 22 Stat. 327; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
§§764, 765. Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
Section 764, R.S. §2404, related to augmented rates for surveys of forest lands in Oregon.
Section 765, R.S. §2405, related to augmented rates for surveys of forest lands in California and Washington.
§766. Geological surveys, extension of public surveys, expenses of subdividing
There shall be no further geological survey by the Government, unless authorized by law. The public surveys shall extend over all mineral lands; and all subdividing of surveyed lands into lots less than one hundred and sixty acres may be done by county and local surveyors at the expense of claimants; but nothing in this section contained shall require the survey of waste or useless lands.
(R.S. §2406.)
R.S. §2406 derived from acts July 21, 1852, ch. 66, §1, 10 Stat. 15, 21; July 9, 1870, ch. 235, §16, 16 Stat. 218.
§767. Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
Section, R.S. §2407, authorized a departure from ordinary method in surveying land on a watercourse.
§§768, 769. Repealed. Apr. 29, 1950, ch. 134, §4, 64 Stat. 93
Section 768, R.S. §2408, authorized Secretary of the Interior to vary lines of subdivisions from a rectangular form to suit the circumstances of the country in extending the surveys of public lands in Nevada. See section 770 of this title.
Section 769, R.S. §2409, authorized Secretary of the Interior to continue geodetic method of survey in Oregon and California.
§770. Rectangular mode of survey; departure from
The Secretary of the Interior may, by regulation, provide that departures may be made from the system of rectangular surveys whenever it is not feasible or economical to extend the rectangular surveys in the regular manner or whenever such departure would promote the beneficial use of lands.
(R.S. §2410; Apr. 29, 1950, ch. 134, §2, 64 Stat. 93.)
R.S. §2410 derived from act Mar. 3, 1853, ch. 145, §4, 10 Stat. 245.
1950—Act Apr. 29, 1950, struck out limitation that, when there are departures from the rectangular surveys, the lands shall not be surveyed into less than 160 acres or subdivided into less than 40 acres, and by substituting a general provision for those departures.
§771. Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, §1, 46 Stat. 1029
Section, R.S. §2411, related to compensation for surveying by the day instead of by the mile in Oregon and California.
§772. Resurveys or retracements to mark boundaries of undisposed lands
(Mar. 3, 1909, ch. 271, 35 Stat. 845; June 25, 1910, No. 40, 36 Stat. 884; Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, §705(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792.)
1976—Pub. L. 94–579 struck out proviso authorizing that not more than 20 per centum of relevant appropriations be used for resurveys and retracements under this section.
Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, §705(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792, provided that the amendment made by section 705(a) is effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976.
§773. Resurveys or retracements of township lines, etc.
(Sept. 21, 1918, ch. 175, 40 Stat. 965; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
"Supervisor of Surveys" changed to the "Secretary of the Interior, or such officer as he may designate,"; "Commissioner of the General Land Office subject to the supervisory authority of the Secretary of the Interior," changed to "Secretary, or such officer as he may designate,"; and reference to "Supervisor of Surveys or commissioner" changed to "Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate,", all on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.
§774. Protection of surveyor by marshal
(R.S. §2413.)
R.S. §2413 derived from act May 29, 1830, ch. 163, §2, 4 Stat. 417.
§775. Omitted