Chapter 205. To authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to cause public lands to be surveyed in certain cases
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CHAP. 205.— An Act To authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to cause public lands to be surveyed in certain cases. February 27, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Survey of land grants to railroads. That when any railroad company claiming a grant of land under any Act of Congress, desiring to secure the survey of any unsurveyed lands within the limits of its grant, shall file an application therefor in writing with the surveyor-general of the State in which the lands sought to be surveyed are situated, and deposit in a proper United States depository to the credit of the United States a sum sufficient to pay for such survey and for the examination thereof pursuant to law and the rules and regulations of the Department of the Interior under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, it shall thereupon be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, or the Director of the Geological Survey, as the case may be, to cause said lands to be surveyed.
Certificates of deposit.For any deposits made by any railroad company hereunder, certificates shall be issued, which may be used by such railroad company, its successors or assigns, to the same extent as cash is now allowed in payment of entries of public lauds under existing law and regulations for any public lauds of the United States in the States where the surveys were made, or for any survey or office fees due the United States from such railroad company on account of surveys of lands within its Regulations.grant.
The Secretary of the Interior shall provide such rules and regulations as may be necessary for carrying out the foregoing provisions. Approved, February 27, 1899.