Chapter 213. Authorizing the survey and sale of certain lands in Coconino County, Arizona, to the occupants thereof
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CHAP. 213.— An Act Authorizing the survey and sale of certain lands in Coconino County, Arizona, to the occupants thereof. July 28, 1914.[[S. 5310](/us/bill/63/s/5310).][[Public, No. 154](/us/pl/63/154).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Survey, etc., of certain lands in Coconino County, Ariz.That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to cause each occupied and improved legal subdivision in sections seventeen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, and thirty in township numbered forty-one north, of range two west, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona, to be surveyed and platted into town lots and necessary public reserves, and into agricultural tracts of not exceeding twenty acres, and into dam and reservoir sites where used for such purposes, following the lines of occupation in each case where occupied as near as may be, and delineating on the plat all irrigating ditches and canals.
Sec. 2. Town lots. Patents to occupants.That the town lots shall be appraised without considering the value of any improvements thereon, and any person, or his successors in interest, who prior to January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, were in the actual occupation of one or more of such lots in good faith for town-site purposes, with substantial and permanent improvements upon each lot and have maintained such Applications.occupation and improvements to date of application, upon the filing of an application therefor within six months from the date of the approval of the appraisement herein provided for, shall be entitled to a patent for the same upon paying the appraised price therefor.
Sale of undisposed of lots.All such lots not covered by valid applications at the expiration of said six months shall thereafter be offered at public sale to the highest bidder, and the lots not so disposed of shall thereupon be subject to private entry: but no lot shall be sold at public sale or private entry at less than the appraised price. Sec. 3. Agricultural tracts.Patents to occupants.That any person, or his successors in interest, who prior to January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, were in the actual occupancy of and improving one or more of said tracts for agricultural purposes, not exceeding in all twenty acres, and have maintained the same in good faith for said purposes, upon the filing of an application to enter the same within six months from the filing of the plat of said survey in the local land office, shall be entitled to a patent for such tract or tracts upon paying the sum of $1.25 per acre therefor.
Sale of undisposed of tracts.All such tracts not covered by valid applications at the expiration of said six months shall thereafter be subject to cash entry upon payment of .$1.25 per acre. Sec. 4. Dam and reservoir tracts reserved.Patents to municipality.That the dam and reservoir tracts are hereby reserved for the use of said community for the purpose of irrigation and water supply, and patent therefor shall issue to the municipality when organized upon payment of $1.25 per acre therefor.
Patents to the public reserves m the town site may be issued to the municipality Easements reserved.when organized. Any easements maintained by authority and for use of the United States are hereby reserved, and said survey shall show all such easements and the patents to all lands affected thereby shall contain a reservation of the easement to the United States. Sec. 5. Survey, etc., of additional land.That the Secretary of the Interior is further authorized to survey, plat, and patent such lots, agricultural tracts, and town-site reservations, which may be situated upon the west half of the south-west quarter of section sixteen, in township numbered forty-one north, of range two west, Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona, upon the same terms and conditions as prescribed in sections one, two, three, and four hereof, should the title to said west half of the south-west quarter be found vested in the United States or revert thereto.
Sec. 6. Payment of expenses.That the expenses incident to the survey, appraisement, and sale, herein required to be made, shall be paid out of any fund 559 appropriated for the survey of the public lands, at the time available. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue proper regulations for the administration of this Act. Approved, July 28, 1914.