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Volume 45 · 502

Public Law 70–532

Granting to the State of South Dakota for park purposes the public lands within the Custer State Park, South Dakota.

Approved May 12, 1928

Statutory text

An Act

Granting to the State of South Dakota for park purposes the public lands within the Custer State Park, South Dakota.

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

That there be, and

Public lands.

South Dakota granted lands for public park, in Custer State Park.

is hereby, granted to the State of South Dakota, for public park purposes, the publicly owned lands within the boundaries of the Custer State Park in townships 3 and 4 south, range 6 east, and the east one-third of townships 3 and 4 south, range 5 east, Black Hills meridian: Provided, That in the event of the failure on the part of

Provisos.

Reversion for non-user.

the State of South Dakota to use the lands hereby grant id for public park purposes the title thereto shall revert to the United States, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to determine the facts and to declare such forfeiture and such reversion and to restore said lands to the public domain: Provided,

Existing rights affected.

That this grant shall not include any land which on the date of the approval of the Act is covered by any existing bona fide right or claim under the laws of the United States, unless and until such right or claim is relinquished or extinguished.

Approved, May 12, 1928.

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