Chapter 317. To grant certain lands to the State of Oregon as a public park, for the benefit and enjoyment of the people
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CHAP. 317.— An Act To grant certain lands to the State of Oregon as a public park, for the benefit and enjoyment of the people. August 11, 1916[[H. R. 10305](/us/bill/64/hr/10305)][[Public, No. 194](/us/pl/64/194)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all those certain tracts,Public lands.Granted to Oregon for public park.Description. pieces, or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Oregon described as follows, to wit:
The south half and the northeast quarter of section seven, and the west half and the southeast quarter of section eight, and the southwest quarter of section nine, in township five north, range eight west of the Willamette meridian; and the southwest quarter of section twenty-seven, and the southeast quarter and west half of section twenty-eight, and the north half of section thirty-three, and the northwest quarter of section thirty-four, and the northeast quarter and the southeast quarter of section twenty-nine, in township six north, range eight west of the Willamette meridian, are hereby granted to the State of Oregon as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people: *Provided*, That the patent to be issued for said lands shall contain the*Provisos*.Reversion for nonuser. provision that the land shall revert to the United States whenever it shall not be used for the purposes mentioned in this Act: *Provided further*, That the Government of the United States of America reservesTelegraph, etc., line rights reserved. the right to operate and maintain any telegraph or telephone line over and upon said land which is in operation at the passage of this Act, or which it may see fit to establish thereafter.
Sec. 2. That there shall be excepted from the grant hereby madeValid claims excepted. any lands which at the date of the approval of this Act shall be covered by a valid, existing, bona fide right or claim initiated under the laws of the United States: *Provided*, That this exception shall not*Proviso*.Condition. continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the claimant continues to comply with the law under which the claim or right was initiated. Approved, August 11, 1916.