§ 474. — Surveys; plats and field notes; maps; effect under Act June 4, 1897.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC474]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
Sec. 474. Surveys; plats and field notes; maps; effect under Act
June 4, 1897
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 June 4, 1897, 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, Sec. 1, 30 Stat. 34; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43
Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11
F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100; Pub. L. 102-154, title I, Nov. 13, 1991, 105
Stat. 1000.)
References in Text
Act June 4, 1897, chapter 2, section 1, referred to in text, is act
June 4, 1897, ch. 2, 30 Stat. 34. For classification of this Act to the
Code, see Tables.
Change of Name
``United States Geological Survey'' substituted in text for
``Geological Survey'' pursuant to provision of title I of Pub. L. 102-
154, set out as a note under section 31 of Title 43, Public Lands.
Transfer of Functions
``Field Surveying Service'' substituted in text for ``office of
surveyors-general'' by act Mar. 3, 1925. Subsequently, the Service was
abolished and its functions transferred to Secretary of the Interior by
Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876,
60 Stat. 1100, 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.
For 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,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 478, 482, 551 of this title.
