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Volume 44

Public Law 69–99

Providing for the sale and disposal of public land within the area heretofore surveyed as Booth Lake, in the State of Wisconsin.

Approved April 2, 1926

Statutory text

An Act

Providing for the sale and disposal of public land within the area heretofore surveyed as Booth Lake, in the State of Wisconsin.

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

That on the survey of any public lands found to exist within the area heretofore surveyed as Booth Lake, in section 13, township 4 north, range 17 east, fourth principal meridian, in the State of Wisconsin, the village of East Troy, the town of East Troy, and the town of Troy, all in Walworth County, Wisconsin, shall have a preference right to purchase such lands so surveyed for a period of sixty days after the filing of the official plats of such surveys, at $1.25 per acre, to have and to hold same as joint tenants for park

Proviso.

Legal rights not impaired.

purposes: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall have the effect of defeating the legal rights of any other person, or persons, which may have attached to such lands, or any part thereof.

Regulations, etc.

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make all necessary rules and regulations to carry this Act into effect.

Approved, April 2, 1926.

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