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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 28 STAT. · August 15, 1894 · Chapter 288

Chapter 288. To further amend section twenty-three hundred and ninety-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United Status

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CHAP. 288.— An Act To further amend section twenty-three hundred and ninety-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United Status.August 15, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.[R. S., sec. 2399, p. 440, amended](/us/rs/t/s2399/p440).Vol. 28, p. 650. That section twenty-three hundred and ninety-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Act of Congress of October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, Statutes at Large, volume twenty-six, page six hundred and fifty, be further amended so as to read as follows, namely:
" “Sec. 2399. The printed manual of surveying instructions for theManual of surveying instructions, 1894, etc., made part of surveying contracts. survey of the public lauds of the United States and private land claims, prepared at the General Land Office, and bearing date June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the instructions of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the special instructions of the Surveyor-General, when not in conflict with said printed manual or the instructions of said Commissioner, shall be taken and deemed to be a part of every contract for surveying the public lauds of the United States and private laud claims.
” " Approved, August 15, 1894.
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