§ 883. Collection of costs of surveying, etc.; reimbursement of purchaser

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.

1. 1886

   Pub. L. 49–764 § 2 · 24 Stat. 143

   Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 883

   (July 10, 1886, ch. 764, § 2, 24 Stat. 143.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (July 10, 1886, ch. 764, § 2, 24 Stat. 143.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. That if any railroad corporation required by law to pay the Collection of costs of surveying the lands granted to railroad companies. costs of surveying, selecting, or conveying any lands granted to such company or for its use and benefit by act of Congress shall for thirty days neglect or refuse to pay any such costs after demand for payment thereof by the Secretary of the Interior, he shall notify the Attorney-General, who shall at once commence proceedings to collect the same. But, when any sum shall be collected of such railroad company as costs of surveying, selecting, and conveying any tract of land which shall have been purchased under the provisions of section one hereof, the Secretary of the Interior shall out of such collections reimburse said purchaser, his heirs or assigns, the amount of money paid by him as the costs of such surveying, selecting, and conveying.

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