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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 145. Exchange of lands

Statutory text

In cases in which a tract covered by an unperfected bona fide claim or by a patent is included within the limits of this park, the settler or owner thereof may, if he desires to do so, relinquish the tract to the Government and secure other land, outside of the park, in accordance with the provisions of the law relating to the subject of such relinquishment of lands in national forests in the State of South Dakota.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 57–63 § 5 · 32 Stat. 765

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 145

    (Jan. 9, 1903, ch. 63, § 5, 32 Stat. 766.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Jan. 9, 1903, ch. 63, § 5, 32 Stat. 766.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. Lands for tracts relinguished. That in cases in which a tract covered by an unperfected bona fide claim or by a patent is included within the limits of this park, the settler or owner thereof may, if he desires to do so, relinquish the tract to the Government and secure other land, outside of the park, in accordance with the provisions of the law relating to the subject of such relinquishment of lands in forest reserves in the State of South Dakota.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Jan. 9, 1903, ch. 63, § 5, 32 Stat. 766.)

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