Chapter 3555. Granting lands to the State of Wisconsin for forestry purposes
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CHAP. 3555.— An Act Granting lands to the State of Wisconsin for forestry purposes. June 27, 1906. [[S. 6462](/us/bill/59/s/6462).] [[Public, No. 304](/us/pl/59/304).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Public lands. Wisconsin granted tract for forest reserve. Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to cause patents to issue to the State of Wisconsin for not more than twenty thousand acres of such unappropriated, unoccupied, nonmineral public lands of the United States north of the township line between townships thirty-three and thirty-four north, fourth principal meridian, as may be selected by and within said State for forestry purposes.
The lands hereby granted, except as herein provided, shall be used as a forest reserve only, and should the State of Wisconsin abandon the use of said lands for such purpose, alienate or attempt to alienate or use the same or 518 any part thereof for purposes other than that for which granted, except upon consent of the Secretary of the Interior, as hereinafter provided, Disposal of agricultural lands. the same shall revert to the United States. If it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary that any tract or tracts of the land hereby granted are better suited for agricultural than for forestry purposes, or by reason of their isolation are not available for Use of proceeds. forest reserve purposes, he may by order consent to the sale of such tract or tracts by the State of Wisconsin upon condition that the proceeds of such sale shall be used by the said State in the reforestation of the permanent forest reserves established by said State, and that, in event the lands hereby granted shall revert to the United States the said State will account for all such moneys and will pay over to the United States all sums derived from the sales of these lands and not actually used in reforestation.
Approved, June 27, 1906.