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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 6 — Withdrawal from Settlement, Location, Sale, or Entry

§ 149. Exchange of private lands included in Indian reservation for other lands

Statutory text

Any private land over which an Indian reservation has been extended by Executive order, may be exchanged at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and at the expense of the owner thereof and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, for vacant, nonmineral, nontimbered, surveyed public lands of equal area and value and situated in the same State or Territory.

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. 58–1402 § 1 · 33 Stat. 189

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 149

    (Apr. 21, 1904, ch. 1402, § 1, 33 Stat. 211.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Apr. 21, 1904, ch. 1402, § 1, 33 Stat. 211.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(Apr. 21, 1904, ch. 1402, § 1, 33 Stat. 211.)

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