Chapter 302. To amend sections twenty-four hundred and one and twenty-four hundred and three of the Revised Statutes
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CHAP. 302.— An Act To amend sections twenty-four hundred and one and twenty-four hundred and three of the Revised Statutes.August 20, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands. That section twenty-four hundred and one of the Revised. Statutes of the United States is hereby amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 2401. When the settlers in any township not mineral or Applications for surveys by settlers, grantees or lands, etc.reserved by the Government, or persons and associations lawfully possessed of coal lands and otherwise qualified to make entry thereof, orR.
S.. sec. 2401, p. 440, amended. 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 the surveyor-general 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 expel id it tires incident thereto, without cost or claim for indemnity on the United States, it shall be lawful for the surveyor-general, under such instructions as may be given him by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and in accordance with law,Survey. 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*Proviso*.
Condition. 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 subdivisions! surveys.” " Sec. 2. That section twenty-four hundred and three of the Revised Statutes of the United States as heretofore amended is hereby amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 2403. Where settlers or owners or grantees of public landsCertificates of deposits by settlers, etc., receivable for purchaser.
R. S. sec. 2403, p. 441. amended. make deposits in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and one, as hereby amended, certificates shall be issued for such deposits which may be used by settlers in part payment for the lands settled upon by them, the survey of which is paid for out of such deposits, or said certificates may be assigned by indorsement and may be received by the. Government in payment for any public hinds of the United States in the States where the surveys were made, entered or to be entered under the laws thereof.
” " Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Received by the President, August 8, 1894. [Note by the Department of State.— The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]