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# 43 U.S.C. § 751a - Survey system extended to Alaska

## Text

The system of public land surveys is extended to the Territory of Alaska.

(Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 424, 30 Stat. 1098.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 351 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions. Section is from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, 1900.

Executive Documents

Admission of Alaska as StateAdmission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.