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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government

§ 563. Disposal of town sites set apart prior to June 27, 1906

Statutory text

Any town site set apart or established prior to , by proclamation of the President, under the provisions of sections 711 and 712 1 of this title, within or in the vicinity of any reclamation project, may be appraised and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of section 562 of this title and all necessary expenses incurred in the appraisal and sale of lands embraced within any such town site shall be paid from the reclamation fund, and the proceeds of the sales of such lands shall be covered into the reclamation fund.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

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. 59–3559 § 3 · 34 Stat. 519

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 563

    (June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 3, 34 Stat. 519.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 3, 34 Stat. 519.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. That any town site heretofore set apart or established by Town sites. Disposal of, within irrigation projects. R. S., secs. 2380, 2381, p. 436. proclamation of the President, under the provisions of sections twenty-three hundred and eighty and twenty-three hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, within or in the vicinity of any reclamation project, may be appraised and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved April sixteenth, Ante, p. 116. nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act providing for the withdrawal from public entry of lands needed for town-site purposes in connection with irrigation projects under the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes;” and all necessary expenses incurred in the appraisal and sale of lands embraced within any such town site shall be paid from the reclamation fund, and the proceeds of the sales of such lands shall be covered into the reclamation fund.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Sections 711 and 712 of this title, referred to in text, were repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 703(a), , 90 Stat. 2789.

Credits

(June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 3, 34 Stat. 519.)

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