Volume 49 · 338
Public Law 74–221
To authorize an extension of exchange authority and addition of public lands to the Willamette National Forest in the State of Oregon.
Approved June 13, 1935
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize an extension of exchange authority and addition of public lands to the Willamette National Forest in the State of Oregon.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any lands which are in private ownership within the following-described area, which are found by the Secretary of Agriculture to be chiefly valuable for national-forest purposes, may be offered in exchange under the provisions of the Act of March 20, 1922 (42 Stat. 465), as
Additions to become parts of the national forest.
amended by the Act of February 28, 1925 (43 Stat. 1090), and upon acceptance of title shall become parts of the Willamette National Forest; and, by proclamation of the President of the United States and upon recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, any lands in public ownership within such described area, not now within the national forest, found to be chiefly valuable for national-forest purposes, may be added to the Willamette National Forest, subject to any valid existing claims. Townships 16 and 17 south, ranges 3 and 4 east, and sections 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36 in township 15 south, range 3 east, of the Willamette meridian.
Sec. 2.
Any lands within the above-described area which are part of the land grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company, title to which revested in the United States under Act of June 9, 1916 (39 Stat. 218), shall remain subject to all laws relating to said revested land grant.
Approved, June 13, 1935.