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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 346. Exchange of lands

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to exchange, in his discretion, alienated lands in Zion National Park for unappropriated and unreserved public lands of equal value and approximately equal area in the State of Utah outside of said park.

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. 68–305 § 3 · 43 Stat. 593

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 346

    (June 7, 1924, ch. 305, § 3, 43 Stat. 594.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 7, 1924, ch. 305, § 3, 43 Stat. 594.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. That nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing claim, location, or entry under the land laws of the United States, whether for homestead, mineral, right of way, or any other purpose whatsoever, or shall affect the rights of any such claimant, Proviso. Exchange of alienated lands in, and Zion Park, for other lands. locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his land: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to exchange, in his discretion, alienated lands in this and Zion National Park for unappropriated and unreserved public lands of equal value and approximately equal area in the State of Utah outside of said parks.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 7, 1924, ch. 305, § 3, 43 Stat. 594.)

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