Volume 47 · 649
Public Law 72–463
Authorizing the conveyance of certain lands to the city of Fallon, Nevada.
Approved July 8, 1932
Statutory text
AN ACT
Authorizing the conveyance of certain lands to the city of Fallon, Nevada.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Fallon, Nev.
Conveyance of certain lands, for dumping ground uses.
of the Interior is authorized and. directed to convey to the city of Fallon, Nevada, for use as a dumping ground, the following-described lands heretofore withdrawn from entry for irrigation purposes: The southwest quarter southwest quarter southwest quarter
Description.
section 20 and the northwest quarter northwest quarter northwest quarter section 29, all in township 19 north, range 29 east, Mount Diablo meridian, consisting of twenty acres, more or less, upon condition that the city shall make payment for the land at the rate of $1.25 per acre within six months after the approval of this Act: Provided, That there shall be reserved to the United States all oil,
Provisos.
Minerals, etc., reserved.
coal, or other mineral deposits found at any time in the land, and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided further, That the grant herein is made subject to any
Subject to existing claims.
valid existing claim or easement, and that the land hereby granted shall be used by the city of Fallon, Nevada, only for a dumping ground, and if the said land or any part thereof shall be abandoned
Reversion for nonuser.
for such use said land or such part shall revert to the United States; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to declare such a forfeiture of the grant and to restore said premises to the public domain if at any time he shall determine that the city has for more than one year abandoned the land for the use herein indicated, and such order of the Secretary shall be final and conclusive, and thereupon and thereby said premises shall be restored to the public domain and freed from the operations of this grant.
Approved, July 8, 1932.