Volume 50 · 638
Public Law 75–618
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept from the State of Utah title to a certain State-owned section of land and to patent other land to the State in lieu thereof, and for other purposes.
Approved August 14, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to accept from the State of Utah title to a certain State-owned section of land and to patent other land to the State in lieu thereof, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the United States a deed of reconveyance from the State of Utah of all of section 2, township 12 south, range 19 east, Salt Lake meridian, Utah, when accompanied by evidence showing unencumbered title m said State, and in exchange therefor the Secretary of the Interior is hereby further authorized to patent to the State of Utah other vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved public land, whether mineral or nonmineral in character, of approximately equal value, to be used for the same purpose for which the lands so reconveyed were granted, and to be subject to the same conditions and limitations which applied to said reconveyed lands.
Sec. 2.
That upon issuance of patent to the State for the land selected in exchange, the land reconveyed shall become a part of Naval Oil Shale Reserve Numbered 2, Utah Numbered 1, for the exclusive use or benefit of the United States Navy.
Approved, August 14, 1937.