Volume 53 · 1071
Public Law 76–334
To empower the President of the United States to create new national forest units and make additions to existing national forests in the State of Montana.
Approved July 20, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To empower the President of the United States to create new national forest units and make additions to existing national forests in the State of Montana.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President
National forests.
President authorized to create new or add to existing units in State of Montana.
of the United States is authorized, in his discretion, to add to existing national forests, or to include within new national forests, by proclamation or Executive order, any unappropriated public lands of the United States situated in the State of Montana which, in his opinion, are chiefly valuable for the production of timber or the protection of watersheds: Provided, That the inclusion of such lands within a
Proviso.
Subject to valid and subsisting rights.
national forest shall be subject to any claim, entry, or appropriation under the public land laws then valid and subsisting and thereafter legally maintained.
Sec. 2.
All previous Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are
Conflicting laws, etc., repealed.
hereby repealed insofar as they apply to the State of Montana.
Approved, July 20, 1939.