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Volume 45 · 451

Public Law 70–415

To enlarge the boundaries of the Crater National Forest.

Approved April 23, 1928

Statutory text

An Act

To enlarge the boundaries of the Crater National Forest.

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

That for the

Crater National Forest, Oreg.

Public lands added to.

purpose of forest management and municipal watershed protection the boundary of the Crater National Forest, in the State of Oregon, is hereby changed to include the following lands, subject to all the

Description.

laws and regulations governing the national forests: Township 35 south, range 3 east, south half of sections 15, 16, and 17; all of sections 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36; township 36 south, range 3 east, all of sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, and

Proviso.

Prior rights, etc., not affected.

36: Provided, That this section shall, as to all lands which are at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purposes of lands so reserved so long as such appropriation is legally maintained or such reservation remains in force.

Sec. 2.

That all revested Oregon and California land-grant lands area, made part within the exterior limits of the above-described tract of townships 35 and 36 south, range 3 east, shall hereby become part of the Crater National Forest, subject to all the laws and regulations governing

Provisos.

Prior rights, etc., not affected.

the national forests: Provided, That this action shall, as to all lands which are now at this date legally appropriated under the public land laws or reserved for any public purpose, be subject to and shall not interfere with or defeat legal rights under such appropriation, nor prevent the use for such public purpose of land so reserved so long as such appropriation is legally maintained or such reservation, remains in force: And provided further, That the Secretaries of the

Appraisal by Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture.

Interior and Agriculture shall jointly appraise and agree on the value of the Oregon and California grant lands and shall certify the same to the Secretary of the Treasury.

Sec. 3.

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is,

Transfer of amount from national forest receipts to Oregon-California grant funds.

authorized upon notice of the amount by the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, to transfer an equal amount of money from the national-forest receipts and credit the same to the Oregon and California land-grant fund, subject to all the laws and regulations governing the disposal of moneys received from the Oregon and California land-grant lands.

Approved, April 23, 1928.

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