Public Law 57–592

That section twenty-three hundred and ninety-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by Act of Congress of October first, eighteen hundred and ninety (Statutes at Large, volume twenty-six, page six hundred and fifty), and Act of Congress of August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four (Statutes at Large, volume twenty-eight, page two hundred and eighty-five), he further amended so as to read as follows, namely:

“Sec. 2399.

The printed manual of surveying instructions for the

Manual of surveying instructions, 1902, etc., deemed part of surveying contracts.

survey of the public lands of the United States and private land claims, prepared at the General Land Office, and bearing date January first, nineteen hundred and two, the instructions of the Commissioner of the General Laud Office, and the special instructions of the surveyor-general, when not in conflict with said printed manual or the instructions of said Commissioner, shall be taken and deemed to be a part of every contract for surveying the public lands of the United States and private land claims.”

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