Chapter 154. Providing that the State of Wyoming be permitted to relinquish to the United States certain lands heretofore selected and to select other lands from the public domain in lieu thereof
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CHAP. 154.— An Act Providing that the State of Wyoming be permitted to relinquish to the United States certain lands heretofore selected and to select other lands from the public domain in lieu thereof. April 12, 1910.[[S. 1866](/us/bill/61/s/1866).][[Public, No. 128](/us/pl/61/128).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o f the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That upon the delivery to thePublic lands.Wyoming may exchange certain lands. Secretary of the Interior by the State of Wyoming 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 and certified to said State under the provisions of an Act entitledVol. 26, pp. 223, 224.
“An Act to provide for the admission of the State of Wyoming into the Union, and for other purposes,” approved July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to wit: All of section thirty-six in townshipDescription. thirty north, range eighty-five west; all of sections sixteen and thirty-six in township twenty-nine north, range eighty-four west; all of section sixteen in township twenty-eight north, range eighty-four west; all of section thirty-six in township twenty-eight north, range eighty-five west; all of sections one and twelve, north half and southwest quarter of section thirteen in township twenty-seven north, range eighty-five west; all of sections seven, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty in township twenty-seven north, range eighty-four west; all of section sixteen in township fifty-two north, range one hundred and three west; southeast quarter of northeast quarter, east half of southeast quarter of section fifteen, south half of north half, southwest quarter, west half of southeast quarter of section fourteen, east half of northeast quarter, northeast quarter of southeast quarter of section twenty-two, northwest quarter of southwest quarter, northeast quarter of northwest quarter, west half of northwest quarter, northwest quarter of northeast quarter of section twenty-three, south half of northeast quarter of section thirteen in township fifty-two north, range one hundred and three west; south half of northwest quarter, north half of southwest quarter of section eighteen in township fifty-two north, range one hundred and two west; northeast quarter of southwest quarter, northwest quarter of southeast quarter of section eleven in township fifty-two north, range one hundred and three west; northeast quarter of northeast quarter of section nine in township fifty-two north, range one hundred and three west; and southeast quarter of southeast quarter of section twenty-seven, northwest quarter of northeast quarter of section thirty-four in township fifty-two north, range one hundred and three west; the land so described having been acquired under the grant of sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six for the support of common schools; and selected under the grant of two hundred and sixty thousand acres for state charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institutions, said selections being approved by the Secretary of the Interior on April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, December fourteenth, nineteen hundred, and June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the said State shall beSelection by State. authorized and permitted to select an equal number of acres from the unreserved, non-mineral, unappropriated public lands of the United States in said State in the same manner, for the same purposes, and subject to the same conditions and limitations under which the lands so reconveyed were selected and held.
Sec. 2. That the lands so reconveyed shall be restored to andLands restored to public domain. become 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: *Provided*, That no portion of the lands*Proviso*.Opening deferred. so reconveyed shall be subject to settlement, entry, location, or selection under the public land laws of the United States until the Secretary of the Interior shall decide that such lands are not needed for any public purpose.
Approved, April 12, 1910.