Chapter 2557. Providing for the conveyance to the State of North Dakota of certain tracts of land for the use and benefit of the North Dakota State Historical Society
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CHAP. 2557.— An Act Providing for the conveyance to the State of North Dakota of certain tracts of land for the use and benefit of the North Dakota State Historical Society. March 2, 1907. [[S. 6134](/us/bill/34/s/6134).] [[Public, No. 216](/us/pl/34/216).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of theNorth Dakota.Lands in, exchanged with Milton Lowie. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow Milton Lowrie, of Mandan, North Dakota, who on July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and four, made homestead entry of the south half of the northwest quarter and the north half of the southwest quarter, section thirteen of township one hundred and thirty-eight north of range eighty-one west, North Dakota, to amend said entry by relinquishing to the United States the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of said section thirteen, and taking in lieu thereof the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of said section thirteen.
Sec. 2. That, subject to rules and regulations to be prescribed byAdditional lands in, exchanged. the Secretary of the Interior, the owner in fee simple, of lots three and four of section thirteen of township one hundred and thirty-eight north of range eighty-one west, west of the river, in the State of North Dakota, containing thirty-five and one-half acres, may convey said land to the United States and select in lieu thereof lots one and two and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-four, same township and range, and receive patent therefor.
Sec. 3. That when the United States shall have acquired title asAcquired lands granted, for North Dakota State Historical Society. aforesaid to said lots three and four and the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of said sect ion thirteen, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause patent to issue to the State of North Dakota for said described tracts for the use and benefit of the North Dakota State Historical Society, conveying to said State all the right, title, and interest of the United States therein.
Approved, March 2, 1907.