§ 568. Use of reclamation fund for expenses of and disposal of proceeds of sale of town sites

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. 1906

   Pub. L. 59–3559 § 4 · 34 Stat. 519

   Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 568

   (June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 4, 34 Stat. 520.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 4, 34 Stat. 520.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. That in the town sites of Heyburn and Rupert, in Idaho, created and surveyed by the Government, on which town sites settlers have been allowed to establish themselves, and had actually established themselves prior to March fifth, nineteen hundred and six, in permanent buildings not easily moved, the said settlers shall be given the right to purchase the lots so built upon at an appraised valuation for cash, such appraisement to be made under rules to be prescribed by Limitation not applicable. the Secretary of the Interior. Providing that the limitation on the size of townsites contained in the Act of April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act providing for the withdrawal from public entry of lands needed for townsite purposes in connection with irrigation projects under the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes,” shall not apply Withdrawal of larger town sites. to the townsites named in this section; and whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, it shall be advisable for the public interest, he may withdraw and dispose of townsites in excess of one hundred and sixty acres under the provisions of the aforesaid Act, approved April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, and reclamation funds shall be available for the payment of all expenses incurred in executing the provisions of this Act, and the aforesaid Act of April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, and the proceeds of all sales of townsites shall be covered into the reclamation fund.

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