---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 758"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "758"
heading: "Delivery of patent contingent on refund of cost of survey"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/758"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Survey of Public Lands"
---

# §758. Delivery of patent contingent on refund of cost of survey


In all cases of the [survey](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) of private land claims the cost of the same shall be refunded to the Treasury by the owner before the delivery of the patent.


## Source credit

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