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[CITE: 43USC766]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                   CHAPTER 18--SURVEY OF PUBLIC LANDS
 
Sec. 766. Geological surveys, extension of public surveys, 
        expenses of subdividing
        
    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.

(R.S. Sec. 2406.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2406 derived from acts July 21, 1852, ch. 66, Sec. 1, 10 
Stat. 15, 21; July 9, 1870, ch. 235, Sec. 16, 16 Stat. 218.


              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    Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by 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.
