340 ACTS OF CONGRESS 



SEC. 597 PUBLIC LAND SURVEY. 



condition, however, that the Governor 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 the first publication in some newspaper of general circulation 

 in the vicinity of the lands likely to be embraced in such township or 

 townships, giving notice to all parties interested of the fact of such ap- 

 plication for survey 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 period of 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: And provided further, That the Commissioner of the General 

 Land Office shall give notice immediately of the reservation of any 

 township or townships to the local land office in which the land is situ- 

 ate of the withdrawal of such township or townships, for the purpose 

 hereinbefore provided: And provided further, That the Governors of 

 the several states herein named are authorized to advance money from 

 time to time for the survey of townships withdrawn at such United 

 States depository as may be designated by the Commissioner of the Gen- 

 eral Land Office, and the moneys so advanced shall be reimbursable. 

 (Act Aug. 18, '94; 28 Stat. L., p. 394; 6 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 374; 2 

 Comp. Stat, p. 1483.) 



From Sundry Civil Appropriations Act of date stated. 

 Application and payment for survey : sec. 52, ante, 



Inspectors to examine and report as to unsurveyed townships : sec. 47, ante. 

 Cited : 29 Land Dec. 590 ; 30 L. D. 1, 80, 278 ; 32 L. D. 107, 241 ; 33 

 L. D. 622. 



SEC. 597. SURVEY OF GOVERNMENT LANDS. 



For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision 

 of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the 

 Secretary of the Interior, [there is hereby appropriated] seven hundred 

 thousand dollars: Provided, That in expending this appropriation pref- 

 erence shall be given in favor of surveying townships occupied in whole 

 or in part by actual settlers and of lands granted to the states by the 

 preceding chapter of this code and the acts approved July 3 and July 

 10, 1890; and to surveying under such other acts as provide for land 

 grants to the several states and territories and such indemnity lands as 

 the several states and territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands 

 granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been 

 sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, except rail- 

 road land grants; and other surveys shall include lands adapted to agri- 

 culture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability 

 for irrigation or dry farming, lines of reservations, and lands within 

 boundaries of forest reservations. (Act Aug. 24, '12; 37 Stat. L., p. 456.) 



NOTE : This section is from the Sundry Civil Appropriations Act of the date 

 stated and while its provisions relate only to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, 



