Volume 75
Public Law 87–147
To amend the Act of March 8, 1922, as amended, pertaining to isolated tracts, to extend its provisions to public sales.
Approved August 17, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act of March 8, 1922, as amended, pertaining to isolated tracts, to extend its provisions to public sales.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act of March 8, 1922 (42 Stat. 415; 48 U.S.C. 376, 377), as amended, is hereby further amended by adding a new section thereto reading as follows:
“Sec. 3.
The Secretary of the Interior may sell under the provisions of section 2455 of the Revised Statutes (43 U.S.C. 1171), as amended, lands in Alaska known to contain workable coal, oil, or gas deposits, or that may be valuable for the coal, oil, or gas contained therein, and which are otherwise subject to sale under said section 2455, as amended, upon the condition that the patent issued to the purchaser thereof
shall contain the reservation required by section 2 of this Act.”
Approved August 17, 1961.