Chapter 2068. Providing that the State of Montana be permitted to relinquish to the United States certain lands heretofore selected and select other lands from the public domain in lieu thereof
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CHAP. 2068.— An Act Providing that the State of Montana be permitted to relinquish to the United States certain lands heretofore selected and select other lands from the public domain in lieu thereof. April 28, 1906. [[H. R. 17135](/us/bill/34/hr/17135).] [[Public, No. 134](/us/pl/34/134).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Montana may select lands in lieu of lands reconveyed to the United States.
That upon the delivery to the Secretary of the Interior by the State of Montana 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 Vol. 25, p. 679.and certified to said State under the provisions of an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington, to form constitutions and State governments and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donation of public land to such States,” approved February Description of reconveyed lands.twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to wit:
All of section thirty-one in township thirteen south of range one west, the south half of the southwest quarter the south half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-six; the south half of the southwest quarter, the south half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-seven; the south half of the southwest quarter, the south half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-eight; the south half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-nine; the west half of section thirty-one; the northeast quarter, the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter, the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-two; the north half and lots two, three, and four of section thirty-three; the north half and lots two and three of section thirty-four; the north half of section thirty-five, in township thirteen south of range two west; the southeast quarter of section twenty-six and east half of section thirty- five, in township thirteen south of range three west; the south half of the northwest quarter and lots three, four, ten, and eleven of section one; lot ten of section two; lots one and two of section eleven; north half of the northwest quarter of section twelve, in township fourteen south of range three west, principal meridian of Montana; the lands so described having been selected as indemnity school hind and the selection thereof having been approved by the Secretary of the Interior under dates of January second, January ninth, February fifth, and April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and one.
The said State shall be authorized and permitted to select an equal number of acres of land from the unappropriated public land of the United 151States in said State, in the same manner, for the same purpose, and subject to the same limitations and conditions under which the land so reconveyed was selected and held. Sec. 2. That subject to rules and regulations to be prescribed by theRed Rock Lakes Reservoir site.Rights of owners, etc., of lands within. Secretary of the Interior, the owner in fee simple or a claimant under any general or special law of the United States, of any land included within the limits of the Red Rock Lakes Reservoir site in the State of Montana, as the said reservoir is now or may hereafter be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, the lands described in the preceding section being a part of said reservoir site, may at the option of the owner or claimant, relinquish or convey such land included in said reservoir site to the United States and personally select in lieu thereof an equal area of the nontimbered public lands of the United States subject to homestead entry and situated in the State of Montana, and such owner or claimant shall be placed in the same relation as to the United States, to the title, possession, and right of possession of the lieu land thus selected as such owner or claimant sustained to the land relinquished at the time the relinquishment was made.
Sec. 3. That the land so reconveyed shall be restored to and becomeLands restored to public domain. 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 28, 1906.