FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 301. 1894. 395 Land Oihce shall proceed to immediately notify the Surveyor—General of the application made by the governor of any of the said States of the application made for the withdrawal of said lands, and the Surveyor- General shall proceed to have the survey or surveys so applied for made, as in the cases of surveys of public lands; and the lands that may be found to fall within the limits of such township or 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 application for survey until the expiration of sixty days from the date of the 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 such grants, with the 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 pub- rubnc must. _ lished, 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 application 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 mma. further, That the Commissioner of the General Land Ofhce shall give w,I,*,j’,§,‘§,‘x“°”““"*P“ notice immediately of the reservation of any township or townships to the local land office in which the land is situate of the withdrawal of such township or townships, for the purpose hereinbefore provided: _ And provided further, That the governors of the several States herein Aavmm. named are authorized to advance money from time to time for the survey of the townships withdrawn at such United States depository as may be designated by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the moneys so advanced shall be reimbursable. The foregoing provisions shall be applicable to Utah when admitted as a State into xppimtis m umn. the Union and a governor is duly inaugurated and acting. For the survey of the public lands lying within the limits of land Survey of i-sumti grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads, and ""'° ""‘“°“‘ the selection therein of such lands as are granted therefor, to enable P °“· 1** °“8· the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisions of section one of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled Vol. zi, pm.
- An Act to provide for the adjustment of land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads and for the forfeiture of
unearned lands, and for other purposes," being chapter three hundred and seventy-six of volume twenty-four of the Statutes at Large, page five hundred and fifty-six, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, which was appropriated therefor by the Act approved Reapplroprianion. August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “An Act mak- v°‘· ·P·°'°· ing appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the ‘ fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for other purposes," is hereby reappropriated and continued, and any money which shall have been expended of such appropriation and reimbursed and paid into the Treasury is hereby reappropriated, and the said sum shall remain a continuing appropriation, and so often as Cgqtinuing ¤i¤pr·> any part of the same shall, after being expended, be reimbursed by P'"` ‘°“' any railroad company as hereinafter provided, the same shall be again available for the purposes aforesaid; Provided, That any portion of ,¤_;;g;j;·;;semcm_ said sum expended for surveying such lands shall be reimbursed by ‘ the respective companies or parties in interest for whose benefit the lands are granted, according to the provisions of the Act of July iif· V°l·1'*· H305- teenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter two hundred and ninety- two, volume sixteen, pages three hundred and five and three hundred
