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 rms um.-rua runmc LANDS.-os. 11. 455 aix, and theretofore sold to b0na—tide urchasers by the State of California I Her-J877»v·8L are manned m me sms of Califdrnia: naman, 1mm-, rm me  *°· r- 267- State shall not receive any greater quantity of land for school or improve- Hun r. Doyle et ment purposes than she IS entitled to by aw, al., 93 U. S., 5§8. Sec. 2486. When selections named in the foregoing section have been Wh°"°Q°l°§°'°'i“ made upon lands already surveyed by authority of the United States, zeiidxursgygdi ` the authorities of said States, where the same has not been already done, ——————— shall notify the register of the land—oflice, for the district in which the ,,33 J “,1Y;,]§€f· °‘ land is situated, w ich notice shall be regarded.as the date of the State gui s'`p“ selection; and the said registers of the several land-offices, after investigation and decision, shall, under the instruction of the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, forward all such selections to the General Land- Oilice, and the Commissioner of the General Land-Office shall certify the same over to the State in the usual manner. _ Sec. 2487. When the State of California has made such selections from Whereselections the lands not surveyed by the authority of the United States, but which M0 ¤P<>¤ l¤¤d ¤¤¤‘· selections have been surveyed by the authority of said State, and the "°z,‘:‘l‘?;‘lYl’YS°“l“ land sold to purchasers in good faith, under the laws of the State. such ‘2‘..$’.1X;._. selections, from said twenty-third of July,hteen hundred and sixty-six, Il>ld·» ¤· 3· P- 219- when marked oil' and designated in the fiiaid, shall have the same force and effect as the pre-emption rights of a settler u n unsurveyed public lands; and if upon a survey of such lands by the Uinited States, the lines of the two surveys shall be found not to agree, the selection shall be so changed as to include those legal subdivisions which nearest conform to the i entical land included in the State survey and selection. Upon tiling with the register of the proper United States land-office of the township plat, in which any such selection of unsurveyed land is located, the holder of the State title shall be allowed the same time to present and prove up his purchase and claim as is allowed pre-em tors under existing lawsand if found in accordance with the law the limd embraced therein shall léenpertiiied over to the State by the Commissioner of the General Iandce. Sec. MSS. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner- of the General Swampandover- Land-Oilice, to certify over to the State of California as swamp and over- ll°‘;‘;,du;“’;g’ gmx flowed lands, all the lands re resented as such upon the approved town- $3,,,,, Om yu,. in ship surveys and plats, whether made before or a ter the 23 day of July, Cami;] wm, ` 1866, under the authority of the United States. —f,;i5';;—jE The surveyor- eneral of the United States for California. shall under "’P' ' the direction of 5112 Commissioner of the General Land-Office, examine · the segregation maps and surveys of the swamp and overilowed lands, made by said State; and where he shnll find them to conform to the system of surveys adopted by the United States, he shall construct and gpprove township lplats accordingly, and forward to the General Landce for approva . _ ln segregating lar e bodies of land, notoriously and obviously swamp and overilowed, it slgall not be necessary to subdivide the same, but to run the exterior lines of such body of land. In case such State surveys are found not to be in accordance with the system of United States survevs, and in such other townships as no survey has been made by the United States, the Commissioner shall direct the surveyougeneral, to make segregation surveys, upon application to the surveyor-general, b * the governor of said State within one year of such application, of all the swamp and overtlowed lands in such townships, and to report the same to the General Land-Office, representing and e- scrihin what land was swamp and overilowed, under the grant, according to Sie best evidence he can obtain. If the authorities of said State, shall claim as swamp. and overilowed, any land not re resented as such upon the map or in the returns of the surveyors, the tsnaracter of such lan at the date of the grant September twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, and the right to the same shall be determined by testimonv, to hetaken before the surveyor-general, who shall decide the same, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of the General Land—Office. s·r——03-——-34