Surveys, field notes, and plats returned from the survey of public lands designated as national forests undertaken under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey in accordance with provisions of Act , chapter 2, section 1, thirtieth Statutes, page 34, shall have the same legal force and effect as surveys, field notes, and plats returned through the Field Surveying Service; and such surveys, which include subdivision surveys under the rectangular system, approved by the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate as in other cases, and properly certified copies thereof shall be filed in the respective land offices of the districts in which such lands are situated, as in other cases. All laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are declared inoperative as respects such survey. A copy of every topographic map and other maps showing the distribution of the forests, together with such field notes as may be taken relating thereto, shall be certified thereto by the Director of the Survey and filed in the Bureau of Land Management.
June 4, 1897, ch. 2, § 130 Stat. 34Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 46243 Stat. 114460 Stat. 1100Pub. L. 102–154, title I105 Stat. 1000(, ; , ; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, ; , , .)
Editorial Notes
References in Text
act June 4, 1897, ch. 230 Stat. 34Act , chapter 2, section 1, referred to in text, is , . For classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Pub. L. 102–154section 31 of Title 43“United States Geological Survey” substituted in text for “Geological Survey” pursuant to provision of title I of , set out as a note under , Public Lands.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
60 Stat. 1100“Field Surveying Service” substituted in text for “office of surveyors-general” by act . Subsequently, the Service was abolished and its functions transferred to Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, § 403, eff. , 11 F.R. 7876, , set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
“Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate” substituted in text for “Commissioner of the General Land Office” on authority of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out in the Appendix to Title 5.
“Bureau of Land Management” substituted for “General Land Office” on authority of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out in the Appendix to Title 5. The “General Land Office” was abolished by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946 with its functions consolidated with that of the Grazing Service to form a new agency in the Department of the Interior to be known as the Bureau of Land Management.
64 Stat. 1262For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, , set out in the Appendix to Title 5.