Chapter 126. Granting to the State of North Dakota certain lands heretofore set apart as a wood reservation for Fort Totten military reservation, for the use of the militia of North Dakota, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 126.— An Act Granting to the State of North Dakota certain lands heretofore set apart as a wood reservation for Fort Totten military reservation, for the use of the militia of North Dakota, and for other purposes.July 6, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,North Dakota.Portion of Fort Totten reservation set apart for militia. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to set apart all that part of the wooded reservations set apart for the use and benefit of Fort Totten military reservation by executive order dated February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, described as follows, namely:
“That portion of the tract known as Rock Island, bounded on the north by an east and west line, two miles back or north of the southeastern most point of said island or peninsula;” said tract being the southernmost point of the peninsula on the north side of Devils Lake in North Dakota, known as Rock Island, for the use of the State of North Dakota, to be 101 used as a park for the use of the militia of said State, and for other public purposes not inconsistent with such use.
Sec. 2. That the lands so set apart are hereby granted to the State of North Dakota: *Provided*, That if the said StateGrant.*Proviso*.Ito version shall at any time permit the said lands hereby granted to be. used for any purpose not contemplated in tins act the said lauds shall revert to the United States. Approved, July 6, 1894.