Chapter 1395. Granting to the State of Oregon certain lands to be used by it for the purpose of maintaining and operating thereon a fish hatchery
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CHAP. 1395.— An Act Granting to the State of Oregon certain lands to be used by it for the purpose of maintaining and operating thereon a fish hatchery. April 19, 1904. [[S. 1607](/us/bill/58/s/1607).] [[Public, No. 119](/us/pl/58/119).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following described Public lands. Grant of, to Oregon for fish hatchery. Description. premises, to wit: The southeast quarter of section nineteen, the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty, and the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty, all in township two north, of range forty-one east, of the Willamette meridian, in the State of Oregon, be, and the same are hereby, granted to the State of Oregon, for the use of said State in maintaining and operating thereon a fish hatchery: *Provided*, That in case said State *Provisos*.
Reversion. of Oregon shall at any time for a period of five years fail to maintain and operate a fish hatchery on said premises, or on some part thereof, then the grant hereinbefore made of said premises to said State shall terminate, and said premises, and the whole thereof, shall revert to the United States: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Secretary of Interior may restore granted lands to public domain. Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to ascertain and determine whether or not such hatchery is being maintained and operated on said premises, and if he shall at any time determine that, for a Conditions. period of two years subsequent to the passage of this Act, the State of Oregon has failed to maintain and operate a fish hatchery on said premises, he shall make and enter an order of record in his Department to that effect, and directing the restoration of said premises, and the whole thereof, to the public domain, and such order shall be final and conclusive, and thereupon and thereby said premises shall be restored to the public domain and freed from the operation of the grant aforesaid.
Approved, April 19, 1904.