§ 908. — Deposits by railroad companies for costs of surveying and conveying unsurveyed lands granted.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC908]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 21--GRANTS IN AID OF RAILROADS AND WAGON ROADS
Sec. 908. Deposits by railroad companies for costs of surveying
and conveying unsurveyed lands granted
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the adjustment
of land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads,
and to subject the lands granted to taxation by States, Territories, and
municipal authorities, any railroad corporation required by law to pay
the costs of surveying, selecting, or conveying any lands granted to
such company or corporation, or for its use and benefit, by any Act of
Congress, is required, within ninety days from demand by the Secretary
of the Interior, to deposit in a proper United States depository to the
credit of the United States a sum sufficient to pay the cost of
surveying, selecting, and conveying any of the unsurveyed lands granted
to such company, or for its use and benefit, under any Act of Congress:
Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior shall determine and
specify in the notice or demand to such company the amount of the
required deposit, and may, in his discretion, demand a sum sufficient to
cover the cost of the survey, selection, and conveyance of the entire
area granted to any company, or for its use and benefit, then
unsurveyed, or for such townships or fractional townships as he may
prescribe and designate in the notice or demand to such company, as
aforesaid: And provided further, That the amount deposited shall,
subject to the rules and regulations of the Department of the Interior,
under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as
he may designate, be disbursed for the surveying, including office and
field work, selection, and conveyance of the lands granted and
designated in the notice of the Secretary of the Interior, as aforesaid:
And provided further, That in the event the money deposited by any
railroad corporation under the provisions of sections 908 to 911 of this
title shall exceed the cost of said surveys, the said excess thereof
shall be repaid to the corporation so depositing the same, or to its
assigns.
(June 25, 1910, ch. 406, Sec. 1, 36 Stat. 834; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3,
Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out
under section 1451 of this title.
``Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate''
substituted for ``Commissioner of the General Land Office'' on authority
of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under
section 1 of this title.
Appropriations
Effective July 1, 1935, the continuing appropriation provided for in
this section was repealed by act June 26, 1934, ch. 756, Sec. 1, 48
Stat. 1225.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 909, 910, 911 of this title.
