Chapter 82. Authorizing the city of Montrose, Colorado, to purchase certain public lands for public park purposes
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CHAP. 82.— An Act Authorizing the city of Montrose, Colorado, to purchase certain public lands for public park purposes. May 9, 1914. [[H. R. 5993](/us/bill/63/hr/5993).] [[Public, No. 97](/us/pl/63/97).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the city of Montrose,Public lands. Montrose County, Colorado, is hereby authorized for a period of twoMontrose, Colo., may purchase, for park uses. years after the passage of this Act, to purchase, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to convey to said city for public park purposes, for the use and benefit of said city, the following- described lands, or so much thereof as the said city may desire, to wit:
The south half of the southwest quarter, the southwest quarterDescription. of the southeast quarter of section nine; the northwest quarter, the west half of the northeast quarter, the north half of the southwest quarter, and the west half of the southeast quarter of section sixteen, all in township forty-seven north, range seven west of the New Mexico principal meridian, containing five hundred and twenty acres, more or less. Sec. 2. That the said conveyance shall be made of the said landsPayment, etc. to the said city by the Secretary of the Interior upon the payment by said city for the said land or such portions thereof as it may select at the rate of $1.25 per acre, and patent issued to said city for the said land selected to have and to hold for public park purposes, subject to the existing laws and regulations concerning public parks, and that the grant hereby made shall not include any lands whichPrior rights not impaired. 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*Provisos.* Oil and mineral rights reserved.
United States: *Provided*, That there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, and other mineral deposits that may be found in the land so granted, and all necessary use of the land for extracting the same: *And provided further*, That said city shall not have theReversion. right to sell or convey the land herein granted, or any part thereof, or to devote the same to any other purpose than as hereinbefore described; and that if the said land shall not be used as a public park, the same, or such parts thereof not so used, shall revert to the United States.
Sec. 3. That the portion of the Act of June seventh, nineteenFormer grant repealed. Vol. 36, p. 460. hundred and ten, which authorizes the said city of Montrose to purchase the northwest quarter and the south half of the northeast quarter of section fourteen, township forty-nine north, range nine west of the New Mexico principal meridian, containing two hundred and forty acres, more or less, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, May 9, 1914.