Chapter 268. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain unused remnant lands to the Board of County Commissioners of Caddo County, Oklahoma, for fairground and park purposes
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CHAP. 268.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain unused remnant lands to the Board of County Commissioners of Caddo County, Oklahoma, for fairground and park purposes. August 22, 1914.[[H. R. 9829](/us/bill/63/hr/9829).][[Public, No. 181](/us/pl/63/181).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Sale of tract to Caddo County, Okla. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to sell to the Board of County Commissioner of Caddo County, Oklahoma, at the price of $1.25 per acre, a parcel of land, or any part thereof, being that portion of the southwest quarter of section fourteen, in township seven, north of range ten, west of the Indian meridian, Oklahoma, lying south of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, containing one hundred and eleven*Proviso*.Conditions. and forty one-hundredths acres, more or less: *Provided*, That said association shall, within ninety days from approval hereof, apply to purchase under this Act, and that the sale shall be upon the express conditions that if the land be not used for park or fairground purposes within one year from date of conveyance to said association, or shall at any time thereafter cease to be so used, the title thereto shall revert to the United States upon the fact of such nonuse being ascertained and declared by the Secretary of the Interior.
Approved, August 22, 1914.