Chapter 1354. 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. 1354.— 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. March 31, 1906. [[S. 4628](/us/bill/34/s/4628).] [[Public, No. 74](/us/pl/34/74).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Wyoming.May relinquish title to certain land grants. That upon the delivery to 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 Act to provide for the admission of the State of Wyoming into the Vol. 26, p. 224.Description.Union, and for other purposes,” approved July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to wit:
South half of section seven, and all of sections seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-three, and thirty-four, in township twenty-three north, range one hundred and ten west; north half and north half of south half of section three, north half and north half of south half and southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section five, and all of sections two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty-two, twenty-four, twenty-six. twenty-eight, thirty, thirty-two, and thirty- four, in township twenty-two north, range one hundred and ten west; section two, and the east half, north west quarter, and north half of southwest quarter of section ten, in township twenty-one north, range one hundred and ten west; west half and southeast quarter of section eighteen, and all of sections four, six, eight, twenty, thirty, and thirty-two. in township twenty-two north, range one hundred and nine west; west half of section eight, south half of section twenty-two, and all of sections six, eighteen, twenty, and twenty-six, in township twenty-one north, range one hundred and nine west; and all of sections eight, twenty-two, and twenty-six, in township twenty north, range one hundred and nine west; the land so described having been selected under the grant of thirty thousand acres for the benefit of the miner’s 93hospital, and grant of thirty thousand acres for the benefit of penal, reform, and educational institutions in Carbon County, said selections being approved by the honorable Secretary of the Interior on March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
The said State shall be authorized and permitted to select an equalSelection of other lands. 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. That the lands so reconveyed shall be restored to andReconveyed lands restored to public domain. 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, March 31, 1906.