Chapter 2286. To authorize the sale of public lands for cemetery purposes
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CHAP. 2286.— An Act To authorize the sale of public lands for cemetery purposes. March 1, 1907. [[S. 6229](/us/bill/59/s/6229).] [[Public, No. 155](/us/pl/59/155).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Sales for cemeteries authorized. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell and convey to any religious or fraternal association, or private corporation, empowered by the laws under which such corporation or association is organized or incorporated to hold real estate for cemetery purposes, not to exceed eighty acres of any unappropriated nonmineral public lands of the Price.United States for cemetery purposes, upon the payment therefor by such corporation or association of the sum of not less than one dollar *Proviso*.Reversion.and twenty-five cents per acre: *Provided*, That title to any land disposed of under the provisions of this Act shall revert to the United States, should the land or any part thereof be sold or cease to be used for the purpose herein provided.
Approved, March 1, 1907.