43 U.S.C. § 987 : US Code - Section 987: Lands to be certified to State within one year

Search 43 U.S.C. § 987 : US Code - Section 987: Lands to be certified to State within one year

It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land
Office, to certify over to the State of California as swamp and
overflowed lands, all the lands represented as such upon the
approved township surveys and plats, whether made before or after
the 23d day of July 1866, under the authority of the United States.
The Supervisor of Surveys shall under the direction of the
Commissioner of the General Land Office, examine the segregation
maps and surveys of the swamp and overflowed lands, made by said
State; and where he shall find them to conform to the system of
surveys adopted by the United States, he shall construct and
approve township plats accordingly, and forward to the General Land
Office for approval.
In segregating large bodies of land, notoriously and obviously
swamp and overflowed, it shall 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 surveys, and in such other townships as
no survey has been made by the United States, the commissioner
shall direct the Supervisor of Surveys to make segregation surveys,
upon application by the governor of said State, within one year of
such application, of all the swamp and overflowed land in such
townships, and to report the same to the General Land Office,
representing and describing what land was swamp and overflowed,
under the grant, according to the best evidence he can obtain.
If the authorities of said State, shall claim as swamp and
overflowed, any land not represented as such upon the map or in the
returns of the surveyors, the character of such land at the date of
the grant September 28, 1850, and the right to the same shall be
determined by testimony, to be taken before the Supervisor of
Surveys, who shall decide the same, subject to the approval of the
Commissioner of the General Land Office.