Public Law 73–511

That to allow and

Conservation of navigable watersheds, etc.

Purchases of forest lands for, modified.

Vol. 30, p. 961; Vol. 43, p. 1215.

facilitate the purchase of forest lands under the provisions of the Act approved March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961; U.S.C., title 16, secs. 613–521¹¹So in original.), in States which desire that such purchases shall be made but cannot give their formal consent thereto until the next meeting

Ante, p. 22.

U.S.C., pp. 424–425.

of their legislative bodies, it is hereby provided that a written statement of consent signed by the Governor of the State prior to January 1, 1935, and containing the certification that a majority of the individual

Consent required.

members of the current State legislative body have expressed in writing to the Governor their concurrence in and approval of such statement of consent shall be regarded as fully complying with and satisfying the requirements of that part of section 7 of said Act of March 1, 1911, which provides that no deed or other instrument of conveyance shall be accepted or approved by the Secretary of Agriculture under said Act until the legislature of the State in which the land lies shall have consented to the acquisition of said land by the United States.