Chapter 60. Authorizing the city of Salida, Colorado, to purchase certain public lands for public park purposes
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CHAP. 60.— An Act Authorizing the city of Salida, Colorado, to purchase certain public lands for public park purposes. February 14, 1917.[[H. R. 21](/us/bill/64/hr/21).][[Public, No. 315](/us/pl/64/315).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Public lands.Conveyed to Salida, Colo., for public park uses. That the city of Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado, is hereby authorized for a period of five years from and 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 section twenty-five, and the southeastDescription. quarter of section twenty-six, township fifty-one north, range eight east, New Mexico principal meridian, known as Box Canon, containing four hundred and eighty acres, more or less. Sec. 2. That the said conveyance shall be made of the said landsPayment. to the said city by the Secretary of the Interior upon the payment by said city for the said lands, or such portions thereof as they may select, at the rate of $1.25 per acre, and patent shall be issued to said city for the said land selected to have and to hold for public park purposes: *Provided,* That the conveyance hereby authorized shall*Provisos*.Prior rights not impaired. not include any lands which 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 United States: *Provided further,* That there shallMineral deposits reserved. be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, and other mineral deposits that may be found in the lands so granted, and all necessary use of the land for extracting the same: *And provided further,* ThatReversion on non-user. said city shall not have the right to sell or convey the land herein 916granted, 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.
Approved, February 14, 1917.