30 U.S.C. § 39 : US Code - Section 39: Surveyors of mining claims

Search 30 U.S.C. § 39 : US Code - Section 39: Surveyors of mining claims

The Director of the Bureau of Land Management may appoint in each
land district containing mineral lands as many competent surveyors
as shall apply for appointment to survey mining claims. The
expenses of the survey of vein or lode claims, and the survey and
subdivision of placer claims into smaller quantities than one
hundred and sixty acres, together with the cost of publication of
notices, shall be paid by the applicants, and they shall be at
liberty to obtain the same at the most reasonable rates, and they
shall also be at liberty to employ any United States deputy
surveyor to make the survey. The Director of the Bureau of Land
Management shall also have power to establish the maximum charges
for surveys and publication of notices under sections 21, 22 to 24,
26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and
section 661 of title 43; and, in case of excessive charges for
publication, he may designate any newspaper published in a land
district where mines are situated for the publication of mining
notices in such district, and fix the rates to be charged by such
paper; and, to the end that the Director may be fully informed on
the subject, each applicant shall file with the register a sworn
statement of all charges and fees paid by such applicant for
publication and surveys, together with all fees and money paid the
register of the land office, which statement shall be transmitted,
with the other papers in the case, to the Director of the Bureau of
Land Management.