Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 444a. Ascertainment of value of lands offered for exchange; evidence of title
Statutory text
The value of all patented lands within said monument offered for exchange, and the value of the lands of the United States to be given in exchange therefor, shall be ascertained in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct; and the owners of such privately owned lands within said monument shall, before any exchange is effective, furnish the Secretary of the Interior evidence satisfactory to him of title to the patented lands offered in exchange; and lands conveyed to the United States under section 444 of this title shall be and remain a part of the Petrified Forest National Monument.
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.
Pub. L. 71–271 § 2 · 46 Stat. 278
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 444a
(May 14, 1930, ch. 271, § 2, 46 Stat. 278.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 14, 1930, ch. 271, § 2, 46 Stat. 278.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. That the value of all patented lands within said monument offered for exchange, and the value of the lands of the United States to be given in exchange therefor, shall be ascertained in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct; and the owners of such privately owned lands within said monument shall, before any exchange is effective, furnish the Secretary of the Interior evidence Title required. satisfactory to him of title to the patented lands offered in exchange; and lands conveyed to the United States under this Act shall be and remain a part of the Petrified Forest National Monument.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Disestablishment of Petrified Forest National Monument
Disestablishment of Petrified Forest National Monument upon establishment of Petrified Forest National Park, see section 119 of this title.
Credits
(May 14, 1930, ch. 271, § 2, 46 Stat. 278.)