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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 759. Survey for and by settlers in township
When the settlers in any township not mineral or reserved by the
Government, or persons and associations lawfully possessed of coal
lands and otherwise qualified to make entry thereof, or 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 such agency as the Secretary of the Interior may designate 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
expenditures incident thereto, without cost or claim for indemnity
on the United States, it shall be lawful for such agency, under
such instructions as may be given by the Secretary of the Interior
or such officer as he may designate, and in accordance with law, 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 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 subdivisional surveys.
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