Florida school surveyed town veyed. Vol. 5, p. 788. Lands reserved for etc. school grant. Public lands bled, That it shall be lawful for the properly credited sections in un agent or official of the State of Florida having in charge ships to be sur the adjustment of its school grant to apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the survey of any townships or parts of townships of public land unsurveyed in any of the surveying districts of said State, with a view to satisfy the grant in aid of schools made to said State of Florida by the Act of March 3, 1845, and other Acts amendatory thereto to the extent of the full quantity of land called for thereby; and upon the application of said agent or official, the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall proceed to have the survey or surveys so applied for made, as in the case of sursettlement, Veys of other public lands; and the lands that may be found to fall within the limits of such townships or parts of townships as ascertained by the survey shall be reserved, upon the filing of the application for survey from any adverse appropriation by settlement or otherwise, except under rights that may be found to exist of prior inception, for a period to extend from such appliSelection of cation for survey until the expiration of sixty days from date of filing of the township plat of survey in the proper district land office, during which period of sixty days the State may select any of such lands not embraced in any valid adverse claim for the satisfaction of its school grant, as aforesaid, with the condition, howPublic notice ever, that the agent or official of the State, within thirty days from the date of such filing of the application for survey, shall cause a notice to be published, which publication shall be continued for thirty days from date of first publication in some newspaper of general circulation in the vicinity of the lands likely to be embraced in such townships or parts of townships giving notice to all parties interested of the fact of such application for surDisposal of un- vey and the exclusive right of selection by the State for the aforesaid period of sixty days as herein provided for, and after the expiration of such sixty days any lands which may remain unselected by the State and not otherwise appropriated according to law shall be subject to disposal under general laws as other public lands: Provided, That the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall give notice immediately of the reservation of any township or parts of townships to the officials of the local land office of the land district in which the land is situated of the withdrawal of such townships or parts of townships for the purpose hereinbefore provided: Prowamp lands pat vided further, That nothing herein shall be deemed to ent not affected. authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to survey any lands within the exterior boundaries of the Everglades, as defined in Everglades patent numbered one hundred and thirty-seven, issued to the State of of application for survey, etc. selected lands. Provisos. Notice to local land officials. Everglades Florida by the United States under the Swamp Land Act of 1850. Approved, February 16, 1921 (41 Stat. 1103). Extract from the Indian appropriation Act, approved March 2, 1895 (28 Stat. 876-899). Vol. 9, p. 519. reservations That any State or Territory entitled to indemnity selections of school lands or entitled to select lands for educational school lands on purposes under existing law may select such lands within opened. the boundaries of any Indian reservation in such State or Territory from the surplus lands thereof, purchased by the United States after allotments have been made to the Indians of such reservation, and prior to the opening of such reservation to settlement. An Act To supplement the Act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An Act to provide for agricultural entries on coal lands." Disposal of sur to States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this Act unreserved public lands of the United States, exclusive of face el coal lands Alaska, which have been withdrawn or classified as coal lands or are valuable for coal shall, in addition to the classes of entries or filings described in the Act of Congress approved June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An Act to provide for agricultural entries on coal lands," be subject to selection by the several States within whose limits the lands are situate, under grants made by Congress, and to disposition, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, under the laws providing for the sale of isolated or disconnected tracts of public lands, but there shall be a reservation to the United States of the coal in all such lands so selected or sold and of the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same in accordance with the provisions of said Act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, and such lands shall be subject to all the conditions and limitations of said Act. Approved, April 30, 1912 (37 Stat. 105). An Act To approve a compromise and settlement between the United Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the compromise and settlement effected Feb- Compromise ruary twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, with the State of between the United States and the State of Arkansas, by certain bonds, John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, and Hoke land grants, etc., Smith, Secretary of the Interior, on behalf of the United Arkansas as to approved. Balance to be States by the sas. States, and James P. Clarke, Governor of Arkansas, on behalf of that State, which was made under and by virtue of the authority conferred by an Act of Congress approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled "An Act to authorize a compromise and settlement with the State of Arkansas," and the Act of the General Assembly of Arkansas, approved April eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, authorizing the governor to act for that State, be, and the same is hereby, approved and given the full force and effect of law upon the declarations and conditions hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. That the amount of six hundred and sixty-two paid the United thousand nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and State of Arkan- thirty-five cents, with which the State is credited in said compromise and settlement for one hundred and thirtytwo thousand five hundred and ninety-four and twentyseven one-hundredths acres of indemnity land, at the price of five dollars an acre be, and the same hereby is, reduced to the amount of three hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars and sixtythree cents, the value of said indemnity land at two dollars and fifty cents an acre, the double minimum price of Government land; and the State of Arkansas is hereby credited with the sum of three hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars and sixtyeight cents for two hundred and sixty-five thousand one hundred and eighty-eight and fifty-four one-hundredths acres of additional selected unadjusted swamp land, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the minimum price of Government land, leaving the balance to be paid by the State of Arkansas to the United States under said compromise and settlement one hundred and sixty thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars. Title of purchasers from the land confirmed. SEC. 3. That the title of all persons who have purState of uncon- chased from the State of Arkansas any unconfirmed firmed Swamp swamp land and hold deeds for the same be, and the same is hereby, confirmed and made valid as against any claim or right of the United States, and without the payment by said persons, their heirs or assigns, of any sum whatever to the United States or to the State of Arkansas. Relinquishments by the SEC. 4. That the State of Arkansas does hereby relinState of lands quish and quitclaim to the United States all lands herepublic land laws. tofore confirmed, certified, or patented to the State which have been entered under the public land laws; and does hereby cede, relinquish, and quitclaim to the United States all right, title, and interest under the Acts of September twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, March second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, in and to all lands in the State which have been heretofore granted, confirmed, certified, or patented by the United accepted by States under any other Acts, and the title to such lands is hereby confirmed in the grantees, their heirs, successors, or assigns, anything in this Act or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That this, Act must be Act shall be of no force or effect until the State of Ar- State. kansas shall have accepted and approved the conditions, limitations, and provisions herein contained by an act of the general assembly or by an instrument in writing duly executed by the governor under the authority conferred upon him by the legislature of said State, and filed with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of the Interior within one year from the approval of this Act: Provided further, That whereas the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas did, on the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, accept and approve the conditions, limitations, and provisions herein contained before the passage of this Act, making the same effective and conclusive, therefore this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. Approved, April 29, 1898 (30 Stat. 367). 36030-23-37 When to take effect. SURVEYORS-GENERAL AND SURVEYS. Revised Statutes.-Sections 2207-2213-How appointed-Duties-Sal- Sections 2214-2223-Residence-Bond-Duration of office____ Sections 2395-2413-Rules of survey-Boundaries of land-Contracts— Prices Survey on request of settlers-Deposits for expenses-Augmented rates - Geological Survey Rivers Nevada Geodetic method - Rectangular method, when departed from Surveying by day-Interfering with surveys___ Page. 574 575 577 578 578 Act of August 7, 1882-Certificates for settler's deposit__. 584 Act of March 3, 1893-Consolidation of surveyor-general's offices. 584 584 Act of March 3, 1899-Standard lines to be established by Commissioner of the General Land Office---- Act of March 4, 1909-Injuring survey marks-Interrupting surveys- 590 Act of June 25, 1910-Resurveys authorized__ 589 Act of September 21, 1918-Retracement of surveys___ 589 Act of October 20, 1919-Resurveys and adjustment of certain disputes in Florida_ 590 585 Act of May 24, 1922-Surveys under supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office_. eral, how and, UNITED STATES REVISED STATUTES. Surveyors-gen- SEC. 2207. There shall be appointed by the President, when appointed. by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a sur Louisiana, Flor veyor-general for the States and Territories herein named, embracing, respectively, one surveying district, namely: Louisiana, Florida, Minnesota, Kansas, California, Nevada, Oregon, Nebraska and Iowa, Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Washington, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona. Salary of, in SEC. 2208. The surveyors-general of Louisiana, Florida, Minnesota, ida, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, and of Nebraska, Iowa, Dakota Territory, shall each receive a salary at the rate of two thousand dollars a year. and Dakota. Salary of, in Oregon and SEC. 2209. The surveyors-general of Oregon and of Washington. Washington shall each receive a salary at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars a year. Salary of, in Colorado, New nia, Idaho, Ne SEC. 2210. The surveyors-general of Colorado, New Mexico, Califor Mexico, California, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Utah, vada, Montana, Wyoming, and Arizona shall each receive a salary at Utah, Wyoming, the rate of three thousand dollars a year. and Arizona. |