Chapter 96. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make temporary withdrawals of public lands for certain purposes
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CHAP. 96.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make temporary withdrawals of public lands for certain purposes. March 15, 1910.[[H. R. 21428](/us/bill/61/hr/21428).][[Public, No. 87](/us/pl/61/87).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That to aid in carrying outPublic lands.Temporary withdrawals for applications under “Carey Act.”Vol. 28, p. 422. the purposes of section four of the Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,” it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Interior, upon application by the proper officer of any State or Territory to which said section applies, to withdraw temporarily from settlement or entry areas embracing lands for which the State or Territory proposes to make application under said section, pending the investigation and survey preliminary to the filing of the maps and plats and application for segregation by the State or Territory: *Provided*, That if the State or Territory shall*Proviso*.Restoration. not present its application for segregation and maps and plats within one year after such temporary withdrawal the lands so withdrawn shall be restored to entry as though such withdrawal had not been made.
Approved, March 15, 1910.