Chapter 75. Authorizing the State of California to select public lands in lieu of certain lands granted to it in Imperial County, California, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 75.— An Act Authorizing the State of California to select public lands in lieu of certain lands granted to it in Imperial County, California, and for other purposes. May 2, 1914. [[H. R. 122](/us/bill/63/hr/122).] [[Public, No. 94](/us/pl/63/94).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands. Grant to California in lieu of former selection. Vol. 32, p. 728. That the State of California or its grantees may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, reconvey to the United States any of the lands heretofore granted to said State in the townships authorized to be resurveyed by the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and twenty-eight), and select in lieu thereof an equal amount of vacant, unappropriated, surveyed, unreserved, *Provisos.* Time limit.nonmineral public lands within said State: *Provided*, That any application to select land under this Act must be presented within three Victor E.
Shaw. Exchange of lands with, in imperial County, Cal.years from the date of its passage: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a patent conveying to Victor E. Shaw, of Los Angeles, California, the south half of section twenty-six, in township eleven south, range thirteen east, San Bernardino base and meridian, containing three hundred and twenty acres, in Imperial County, California, upon the express and prior condition that said Victor E.
Shaw shall execute and deliver to the Secretary of the Interior a grant and deed satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior relinquishing and conveying to the Government of the United States all his right, title, and interest in and to the north half of section thirty-six, in township sixteen south, range thirteen east, San Bernardino base and meridian, Imperial County, California, according to the original survey, containing three hundred and twenty acres, now known as part of tract thirty-seven, in township sixteen south, ranges thirteen and fourteen east, San Bernardino base and meridian, according to the resurvey.
Sec. 2. Regulations, etc. That the Secretary of the Interior may make proper rules and regulations for carrying this Act into effect. Approved, May 2, 1914.