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# 43 U.S.C. § 758 - Delivery of patent contingent on refund of cost of survey

## Text

In all cases of the survey of private land claims the cost of the same shall be refunded to the Treasury by the owner before the delivery of the patent.

(Mar. 3, 1885, ch. 360, 23 Stat. 499.)