Volume 52
Public Law 75–700
To increase the period for which leases may be made for grazing and agricultural purposes of public lands donated to the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington by the Act of February 22, 1889, as amended.
Approved June 25, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To increase the period for which leases may be made for grazing and agricultural purposes of public lands donated to the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington by the Act of February 22, 1889, as amended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That so much of the second paragraph of section 11 of the Act relating to the admission into the Union of the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington, approved February 22, 1889, as amended, as reads “but leases for grazing and agricultural purposes shall not be for a term longer than five years”, is amended to read as follows: “but leases for grazing and agricultural purposes shall not be for a term longer than ten years”.
Approved, June 25, 1938.