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Volume 44

Public Law 69–153

Making a grant of land for school purposes, Fort Shaw division, Sun River project, Montana.

Approved April 17, 1926

Statutory text

An Act

Making a grant of land for school purposes, Fort Shaw division, Sun River project, Montana.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to issue patent conveying lots 14 and 15, section 2, and lots 11 and 12, section 11, township 20 north, range 2 west, containing thirty and seventy-six one-hundredths acres, to school district numbered 82, Cascade

Proviso.

Price.

County, State of Montana, for school purposes: Provided, That this grant is made upon the payment of $1.25 per acre: Provided further,

Use restricted.

That said patent shall be issued upon the express condition that the said school district shall use said tract of land for public school purposes: Provided further, That whenever said land shall cease to

Reversion for non-user.

be used by said school district for school purposes or attempted to be sold or conveyed, then, and in that event, title to such land and the whole thereof shall revert to the United States: Provided further,

Mineral deposits reserved.

That such patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all gas, oil, coal, and other mineral deposits as may be found in such land and the right to the use of the land for extracting and removing the same.

Approved, April 17, 1926.

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