Chapter 257.
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CHAP. 257.— AN ACT Granting public lands to the town of Omak, State of Washington, for public-park purposes.March 4, 1911.[[S. 10756](/us/bill/36/s/10756).][[Public, No. 497](/us/bill/36/pl/497).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, That there is hereby granted and conveyed, for public-park purposes, Public lands.to the town of Omak, county of Okanogan, State of Washington, Granted to Omak. Wash.,for public park.a municipal corporation, the following-described lands, or so much thereof as said town may desire, to wit :
All of Government lot numbered three, section twenty- five; and all of Government lot numbered four, section twenty-six, both lying in township thirty-four north, and range twenty-six east of Willamette meridian, and Description.containing twenty-nine and twelve one-hundredths acres, more or less. Sec.2.That the said conveyance shall be made of the said lands to the said town by the Secretary of the Interior upon the paymentPayment.by the said town for the said lands, or such portion thereof as it may select, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and patent issued to the said town for the said lands selected, to have and to hold for public-park purposes, subject to the existing lawsSubject to valid claims.and regulations concerning public parks, and that the grant hereby made shall not include any lands which at the date of the issuance of patent shall be covered by a valid, existing, bona fide right or claim initiated under the laws of the United States: *Provided,**Provisos.*That there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, and other mineral deposits that maybe Oil, etc., rights reserved.found in the lands so granted, and all necessary use of the lands for extracting the same: *And provided further,*That the said town shall not have the right to sell or convey the lands herein granted, Reversion for nonuser.or any parts thereof, or to devote the same to any other purpose than as hereinbefore described, and that if the said lands shall not be used as public parks the same, or such parts thereof not so used, shall revert to the U\nited States.
Approved, March 4, 1911.