Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 18 — Survey of Public Lands
§ 770. Rectangular mode of survey; departure from
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior may, by regulation, provide that departures may be made from the system of rectangular surveys whenever it is not feasible or economical to extend the rectangular surveys in the regular manner or whenever such departure would promote the beneficial use of 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. § 2410
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 770
R.S. § 2410
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 2410
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 2410 derived from act Mar. 3, 1853, ch. 145, § 4, 10 Stat. 245.
Amendments
1950—Act , struck out limitation that, when there are departures from the rectangular surveys, the lands shall not be surveyed into less than 160 acres or subdivided into less than 40 acres, and by substituting a general provision for those departures.
Credits
1950 · 2 acts
- R.S. § 2410
- 1950Apr. 29, 1950, ch. 134, § 2, 64 Stat. 93.
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(R.S. § 2410; Apr. 29, 1950, ch. 134, § 2, 64 Stat. 93.)