Volume 50 · 747
Public Law 75–741
Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to the State of Montana to be used for the purposes of a public park and recreational site.
Approved August 24, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to the State of Montana to be used for the purposes of a public park and recreational site.
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 authorized and directed to convey to the State of Montana, upon the conditions and limitations hereinafter expressed, the following-described land of the United States in the State of Montana, to be held and used by such State for the purposes of a State public park and recreational site:
montana principal meridian
Description.
Township 1 north, range 2 west, section 7, west half; section 8, south half southwest quarter and southwest quarter southeast quarter; section 17, lots 1, 2, 10, 11, and 12, and north half northwest quarter; section 18, northeast quarter northeast quarter, northwest quarter, northeast quarter southwest quarter, lot 3 or northwest quarter southwest quarter, and north half southeast quarter; section 20, northwest quarter northeast quarter northeast quarter and northwest quarter northeast quarter.
Township 1 north, range 3 west, section 12, southeast quarter northeast quarter and east half southeast quarter (lots 7 and 12); section 13, east half northeast quarter (lots 1 and 4), and northwest quarter northeast quarter lot 2).
In the event the State shall fail to devote such lands to the purposes
Reversionary provisions.
of a State public park and recreational site within five years after the date of enactment of this Act, or fail to maintain such land as a public park and recreational site for any period of five consecutive years subsequent to its devotion to such use, or devote such lands or any part thereof to another use, such land and all improvements thereon shall revert to the United States; and in such event the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to declare such a forfeiture of the grant, and to assume jurisdiction of lot 12, section 17, township 1 north, range 2 west, for national-monument purposes under the Act of June 8, 1906 (34 Stat.
225). Any patent issued hereunder shall contain a reservation to the United States of all mineral deposits in the land patented: Provided,
Proviso.
Mineral reservation.
That such minerals so reserved shall be prospected for, mined, and removed only in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Approved, August 24, 1937.