§ 757. — Cost of survey of private land claims to be reported and paid.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC757]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 18--SURVEY OF PUBLIC LANDS
Sec. 757. Cost of survey of private land claims to be reported
and paid
An accurate account shall be kept by the Secretary of the Interior
or such officer as he may designate of the cost of surveying and
platting every private land claim to be reported to the Bureau of Land
Management with the map of such claim; and a patent shall not issue nor
shall any copy of any such survey be furnished for any such private
claim until the cost of survey and platting shall have been paid into
the Treasury of the United States by the party or parties in interest in
said grant or by any other party.
(July 31, 1876, ch. 246, 19 Stat. 121; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat.
1144; 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.
``Field Surveying Service'' changed to ``Secretary of the Interior
or such agency as he may designate'' and ``General Land Office'' changed
to ``Bureau of Land Management'', on authority of section 403 of Reorg.
Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.
Act Mar. 3, 1925, abolished office of surveyor general and
transferred administration of all activities in charge of surveyors
general to Field Surveying Service under jurisdiction of United States
Supervisor of Surveys.
