Chapter XC. *for the Survey of Grants or Claims of Land.* June 2, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Survey of certain land grants or claims, when to be made
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Chap. XC.— An Act *for the Survey of Grants or Claims of Land.* June 2, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Survey of certain land grants or claims, when to be made. That all claims or grants of land in any of the States or Territories of the United States, derived from any foreign country or Government, shall be surveyed under the direction of the proper officers of the Government of the United States upon the application of the parties claiming or owning the same, and at their expense, which shall be paid or secured to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior before the work shall be performed; but nothing Limit to power of surveying officers.in the law requiring the executive officers to survey land claimed or granted under any laws of the United States shall be construed either to authorize such officers to pass upon the validity of the titles granted by or under such laws, or to give any greater effect to the surveys made Effect of want of survey or patent.by them than to make such surveys *prima facie* evidence of the true location of the land claimed or granted, nor shall any such grant beTHIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 91, 92, 93. 1862.411 deemed incomplete for the want of a survey or patent when the land granted may be ascertained without a survey or patent. Approved, June 2, 1862.