43 U.S.C. § 886 : US Code - Section 886: Survey of lands within limits of railroad grants

Search 43 U.S.C. § 886 : US Code - Section 886: Survey of lands within limits of railroad grants

For the survey of the public lands lying within the limits of
land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of
railroads, and the selection therein of such lands as are granted
therefor, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the
provisions of section 894 of this title, the sum of $100,000
heretofore appropriated is made a continuing appropriation for the
survey of lands within the limits of railroad land grants, and any
money which shall be expended of such appropriation and reimbursed
and paid into the Treasury is reappropriated, and said sum shall
remain a continuing appropriation, and so often as any part of the
same shall, after being expended, be reimbursed by any railroad
company as hereinafter provided, the same shall be again available
for the purposes aforesaid: Provided, That any portion of said sum
expended for surveying such lands shall be reimbursed by the
respective companies or parties in interest for whose benefit the
lands are granted, according to the provisions of section 881 of
this title: And provided further, That whenever there shall have
been reimbursed and paid into the Treasury of the United States, by
the respective companies or parties in interest, any part of said
appropriation expended for surveys within such grants, there shall
be immediately available, out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, an amount equal to the amount so
reimbursed, and the same shall be available for the survey of the
public lands lying within the limits of the railroad land grants
made by Congress, until all of said lands shall have been surveyed:
Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to
prevent the use, within the limits of any railroad land grant made
by Congress, of any part of any regular appropriation for surveying
the public lands: Provided, That no part of the foregoing money
shall be used for any land embraced in any grant to the State of
Florida: And provided further, That the provisions of law requiring
reimbursements to be made to the United States by railroad
corporations claiming such grants shall apply equally to the
successors of such railroad corporations acquiring title to their
lands and other property, under decree of foreclosure of any
mortgage authorized by Congress.