Chapter 254. Providing that the State of Wyoming be permitted to relinquish to the United States certain lands heretofore selected and to select other lands from the public domain in lieu thereof
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CHAP. 254.— An Act Providing that the State of Wyoming be permitted to relinquish to the United States certain lands heretofore selected and to select other lands from the public domain in lieu thereof. April 23, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That upon the delivery to Wyoming. Selection by of other lands for certain lands relinquished to the United States. the Secretary of the Interior by the State of Wyoming of its properly executed and duly recorded deed or deeds reconveying to the United States of America, in fee simple, certain lands heretofore selected by and certified to said State under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Vol. 26, p. 222.
Act to provide for the admission of the State of Wyoming into the Union, and for other purposes,” approved July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to wit: Southwest quarter of section five; southeast quarter, south half of Lands relinquished. northeast quarter, southeast quarter of northwest quarter, and lots one, two, three, four, and five of section six; east half of southeast 140 quarter, east half of northeast quarter, northeast quarter of northwest quarter, and lots one, two, three of section seven; all of section eight; southwest quarter of section nine; south half of northeast quarter and south half of northwest quarter of section seventeen; northwest quarter of section twenty, in township thirty-four north, range one hundred and eighteen west; all of sections one and two; east half of section three; north half of section eleven; northeast quarter, northeast quarter of northwest quarter, south half of northwest quarter, north half of southeast quarter, north half of southwest quarter, and southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section twelve; northeast quarter, north half of northwest quarter, and southwest quarter of northwest quarter of section fourteen; southwest quarter of section twenty-four; all of section twenty-five, in township thirty-four north, range one hundred and nineteen west; west half of section ten; west half of section fifteen; north half of southeast quarter, north half of southwest quarter, northwest quarter, and south half of northeast quarter of section twenty-two; southeast quarter, south half of northeast quarter, east half of southwest quarter, and south half of northwest quarter of section twenty-three; southwest quarter, west half of southeast quarter, east half of northwest quarter, and west half of northeast quarter of section twenty-six, in township thirty-six north, range one hundred and nineteen west, the land so described having been selected under the grant of thirty thousand acres for the benefit of the Miners’ Hospital, said selection being approved by the honorable Secretary of the Interior on March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
West half of section one; all of section two; east half of section three; south half, south half of northeast quarter, and south half of northwest quarter of section eleven; southwest quarter of section twelve; west half of section thirteen; all of sections fourteen and twenty-three; west half of section twenty-four; west half of section twenty-five; all of sections twenty-six and thirty-five, in township thirty-five north, range one hundred and nineteen west; south half of southwest quarter and south half of southeast quarter of section twenty-two; southeast quarter, north half of southwest quarter, and southeast quarter of southwest quarter of section twenty-seven; east half, east half of northwest quarter, east half of southwest quarter, and southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section thirty-four; west half of northeast quarter, northwest quarter, and south half of section thirty-five, in township thirty-six north, range one hundred and nineteen west, the lands so described having been selected under the grant of thirty thousand acres for the benefit of the insane asylum in Uinta County, said selection being approved by the honorable Secretary of the Interior on February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Selection of other lands. The said State shall be authorized and permitted to select an equal number of acres from the unappropriated public lands of the United States in said State in the same manner, for the same purposes, and subject to the same conditions and limitations under which the lands so reconveyed were selected and held. Sec. 2. Reconveyed lands restored to public domain, etc. That the lands so reconveyed shall be restored to and become a part of the public domain and be subject to disposal by the Government in the same manner in which other public lands of a like character are disposed of.
Approved, April 23, 1900.