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Public Law 72–329

To set aside certain lands around the abandoned Bowdoin well, Montana, for recreational purposes under a lease to Phillips County Post, Numbered 57, of the American Legion, Department of Montana.

Approved June 30, 1932

Statutory text

AN ACT

To set aside certain lands around the abandoned Bowdoin well, Montana, for recreational purposes under a lease to Phillips County Post, Numbered 57, of the American Legion, Department of Montana.

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

That the southwest

Bowdoin well, Mont.

Lands around, set aside for recreational uses.

Description.

quarter southeast quarter and the east half southeast quarter southwest quarter of section 35, township 32 north, range 32 east, Montana principal meridian, comprising sixty acres, are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry and dedicated to the purpose of securing the proper use of the warm waters flowing from the abandoned Bowdoin well, and to other properly related recreational uses.

Sec. 2.

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to lease the said tract of land to Phillips County Post, Numbered 57, of the American Legion, Department of Montana, for a term of twenty-five

Conditions.

years, subject to the express condition that said post shall use, without the privilege of underleasing or/and subleasing, such premises under such terms as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and that all rates for the use of said premises and its appurtenances shall be fair and reasonable, and approved by him.

Sec. 3.

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to make such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.

Approved, June 30, 1932.

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