Chapter 637. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to lease land in Stanley County, South Dakota for a buffalo pasture
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CHAP. 637.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to lease land in Stanley County, South Dakota for a buffalo pasture. March 12, 1906. [[H. R. 13542](/us/bill/34/hr/13542).] [[Public, No. 13](/us/pl/34/13).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of theSouth Dakota.Lease of lands in Stanley County, for buffalo pasture, authorized. Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw from entry and to lease for a period of ten years, at an annual rental of not less than fifty dollars, under rules and regulations to be by him prescribed, not exceeding three thousand live hundred acres of the public domain in townships five and six north, of range thirty, and townships five and six north, range thirty-one east, Black Hills meridian, in the county of Stanley and State of South Dakota, to be used exclusively for the pasturing of native buffalo, and for no other purpose: *Provided, *That*Provisos*.Restrictions. no lands shall be leased except such tracts as may have been subject to homestead entry for a period of fifteen years and have not been entered or appropriated, unless abandoned for a sufficient period so that entries that may have been made have been canceled and the. land has reverted to the public domain: *Provided further,* That the Secretary ofCancellation of leases. the Interior may at any time cancel any lease which may hereafter be made under the provisions hereof and restore said land to the public domain.
Approved, March 12, 1906.