Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 18 — Survey of Public Lands
§ 766. Geological surveys, extension of public surveys, expenses of subdividing
Statutory text
There shall be no further geological survey by the Government, unless authorized by law. The public surveys shall extend over all mineral lands; and all subdividing of surveyed lands into lots less than one hundred and sixty acres may be done by county and local surveyors at the expense of claimants; but nothing in this section contained shall require the survey of waste or useless lands.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
(R.S. § 2406.)
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 766
(R.S. § 2406.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 2406.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 2406 derived from acts July 21, 1852, ch. 66, § 1, 10 Stat. 15, 21; July 9, 1870, ch. 235, § 16, 16 Stat. 218.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act
Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title.
Credits
(R.S. § 2406.)