Volume 38 · 114
Public Law 63–15
To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purposes.
Approved September 30, 1913
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the President to provide a method for opening lands restored from reservation or withdrawal, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That hereafter when public
Public lands.
Method authorized for opening, restored from reservations, etc.
lands are excluded from national forests or released from withdrawals the President may, whenever in his judgment it is proper or necessary, provide for the opening of the lands by settlement in advance of entry, by drawing, or by such other method as he may deem advisable in the interest of equal opportunity and good administration, and in doing so may provide that lands so opened shall be subject only to homestead entry by actual settlers only or to entry under the desert-land laws for a period not exceeding ninety days, the unentered lands to be thereafter subject to disposition under the public-land laws applicable thereto.
Sec. 2.
That where under the law the Secretary of the Interior is authorized or directed to make restoration of lands previously with-drawn he may also restrict the restoration as prescribed in section one of this Act.
Approved, September 30, 1913.