Volume 45
Public Law 70–378
To extend the provisions of the Act of Congress approved March 20, 1922, entitled “An Act to consolidate national forest lands.”
Approved April 16, 1928
Statutory text
An Act
To extend the provisions of the Act of Congress approved March 20, 1922, entitled “An Act to consolidate national forest lands.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the provisions
National forests.
Exchange of lands authorized within Spanish or Mexican grants, for additions to Carson, Manzano, or Santa Fe, forests, N. Mex.
Vol. 42, p. 465.
U. S. Code, p. 420.
of the Act of Congress approved March 20, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes, page 465), Section 485, Title 16, Code of Laws of the United States, an Act entitled “An Act to consolidate national forest lands,” be, and the same are hereby, extended and made applicable to any lands within former Spanish or Mexican land grants which lie partly within or contiguous to the boundaries of the Carson, Manzano, or Sante Fe National Forests in the State of New Mexico. The lands conveyed to the United States under this Act shall, upon acceptance of title, become parts of the national forests within or near whose exterior boundaries they are located.
Approved, April 16, 1928.