Volume 70 · 955
Public Law 84–932
To amend section 1 of the Act of March 4, 1915, as amended (48 U. S. C., sec. 353).
Approved August 2, 1956
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 1 of the Act of March 4, 1915, as amended (48 U. S. C., sec. 353).
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of the Act of March 4, 1915, as amended (48 U. S. C., sec. 353), is further amended by inserting before the period at the end of the first paragraph thereof a colon and the following language: “Provided, That the existence of a mineral lease or permit, or application therefor, shall not prevent the reservation of land under this section, and such leases, permits, and applications shall be administered as hereinafter provided. The rights of the Territory to any lands under this Act shall not be denied on the sole grounds that such lands were at the time of the acceptance of the survey subject to a reservation, application, claim, or right and that that reservation, application, claim, or right was extinguished, relinquished, or cancelled prior to March 5, 1952”.
Approved August 2, 1956.