Volume 52 · 687
Public Law 75–388
Providing for the addition of certain lands to the Black Hills National Forest in the State of Wyoming.
Approved June 15, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
Providing for the addition of certain lands to the Black Hills National Forest in the State of Wyoming.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subject to all valid, existing claims, entries, and leases, all of the lands of the United States within the following-described area are hereby added to and made a part of the Black Hills National Forest in the State of Wyoming, and such lands shall hereafter be administered under the laws and regulations relating to the national forests:
bear lodge unit, sixth principal meridian
Township 55 north, range 63 west: Sections 5 to 9, inclusive, 16 to 21, inclusive, 28 to 34, inclusive, and west half section 4, west half section 27.
Township 54 north, range 63 west: Sections 4 to 9, inclusive, 17, 18, 19, 28 to 32, inclusive, west, half section 3; north half northeast quarter and west half section 20; north half, southwest quarter and north half southeast quarter and north half southwest quarter southeast quarter section 33.
Township 53 north, range 65 west: Sections 1, 12, 13, 24, 25, 36.
Township 53 north, range 64 west: Sections 1 to 12, inclusive, 15 to 22, inclusive, 27 to 34, inclusive, northeast quarter and west half section 14.
Township 53 north, range 63 west: North half section 5, section 6, and northwest quarter section 7.
Township 52 north, range 65 west: Sections 1 to 36, inclusive.
Township 52 north, range 64 west: Sections 3 to 10, inclusive, 14 to 36, inclusive.
Township 52 north, range 63 west: Section 31 and east half section 36.
Township 51 north, range 63 west: Sections 1, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, and west half southwest quarter section 5; east half northeast quarter, southeast quarter, south half southwest quarter section 9.
Sec. 2.
Any of the lands described in the first section of this Act
Lands accepted in exchange.
which are privately owned may be accepted in exchange by the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to consolidate national forest lands”, approved March 20, 1922,
Administration.
as amended. All of such lands so accepted in exchange shall be added to and made a part of the Black Hills National Forest in the State of Wyoming and shall thereafter be administered under the laws and regulations relating to the national forests.
Approved, June 15, 1938.