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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection

§ 689d. Acceptance of title to privately owned lands within Tahquitz Preserve

Statutory text

Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture the Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion to accept, on behalf of the United States, title to any lands in private ownership within the boundaries of the game preserve established, and make exchange therefor under the provisions of sections 485 and 486 of this title.

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. 69–776 § 5 · 44 Stat. 889

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 689d

    (July 3, 1926, ch. 776, § 5, 44 Stat. 889.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 3, 1926, ch. 776, § 5, 44 Stat. 889.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture Acceptance of private lands within game preserve, and other lands or timber given In exchange therefor. the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized in his discretion to accept, on behalf of the United States, title to any lands in private ownership within the boundaries of the game preserve established hereby, and make exchange therefor under the provisions of the Act approved March 20, 1922 (Forty-second Vol. 42, p, 465. Statutes, page 465).

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(July 3, 1926, ch. 776, § 5, 44 Stat. 889.)

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