Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 43 : Section 52


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 52. Surveying duties

      The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate
    shall engage a sufficient number of skillful surveyors as his
    deputies, to whom he is authorized to administer the necessary
    oaths upon their appointments. He shall have authority to frame
    regulations for their direction, not inconsistent with law or the
    instructions of the Bureau of Land Management, and to remove them
    for negligence or misconduct in office.
      Second. He shall cause to be surveyed, measured, and marked,
    without delay, all base and meridian lines through such points and
    perpetuated by such monuments, and such other correction parallels
    and meridians as may be prescribed by law or by instructions from
    the Bureau of Land Management, in respect to the public lands to
    which the Indian title has been or may be extinguished.
      Third. He shall cause to be surveyed all private land claims
    after they have been confirmed by authority of Congress, so far as
    may be necessary to complete the survey of the public lands.
      Fourth. He shall transmit to the officer, as the Secretary of the
    Interior may designate, of the respective land offices general and
    particular plats of all lands surveyed by him for each land
    district; and he shall forward copies of such plats to such officer
    as the Secretary may designate.
      Fifth. He shall, so far as is compatible with the desk duties of
    his office, occasionally inspect the surveying operations while in
    progress in the field, sufficiently to satisfy himself of the
    fidelity of the execution of the work according to contract, and
    the actual and necessary expenses incurred by him while so engaged
    shall be allowed; and where it is incompatible with his other
    duties for the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may
    designate to devote the time necessary to make a personal
    inspection of the work in progress, then he is authorized to depute
    a confidential agent to make such examination; and the actual and
    necessary expenses of such person shall be allowed and paid for
    that service, and $5 a day during the examination in the field; but
    such examination shall not be protracted beyond thirty days; and in
    no case longer than is actually necessary; and when the Secretary
    or such officer, or any person employed in his office at a regular
    salary, is engaged in such special service, he shall receive only
    his necessary expenses in addition to his regular salary.



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