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[CITE: 43USC774]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                   CHAPTER 18--SURVEY OF PUBLIC LANDS
 
Sec. 774. Protection of surveyor by marshal

    Whenever the President is satisfied that forcible opposition has 
been offered, or is likely to be offered, to any surveyor or deputy 
surveyor in the discharge of his duties in surveying the public lands, 
it may be lawful for the President to order the marshal of the State or 
district, by himself or deputy, to attend such surveyor or deputy 
surveyor with sufficient force to protect such officer in the execution 
of his duty, and to remove force should any be offered.

(R.S. Sec. 2413.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2413 derived from act May 29, 1830, ch. 163, Sec. 2, 4 
Stat. 417.
