Volume 39
Public Law 64–219
To authorize an exchange of lands with the State of North Dakota for promotion of experiments in dry-land agriculture, and for other purposes.
Approved July 3, 1916
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize an exchange of lands with the State of North Dakota for promotion of experiments in dry-land agriculture, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That upon receipt of a proper deed from the State of North Dakota, executed under authority of the Act of its legislative assembly, approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, reconveying to the United States title to section sixteen, township one hundred and thirty-eight north, range eighty-one west, fifth principal meridian, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue patents to said State for such vacant, surveyed, unreserved, unoccupied, nonmineral public lands as may be selected by said State within its boundaries, not exceeding one thousand two hundred and eighty acres in aggregate area,
Added to dry-land experimental station at Mandan.
and said section when so reconveyed shall not be subject to settlement, location, entry, or selection under the public-land laws, but shall be reserved for the use of the Department of Agriculture in carrying on experiments in dry-land agriculture at the Northern Great Plains Field Station, Mandan, North Dakota.
Approved, July 3, 1916.