Chapter 89. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to exchange for lands in private ownership lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company
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CHAP. 89.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to exchange for lands in private ownership lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company. May 31, 1918.[[H. R. 5489](/us/bill/65/hr/5489).][[Public, No. 162](/us/65/pl/162).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of thePublic lands.Exchange of revested Oregon and California grant lands with private owners.Vol. 39, p. 218.
Vol. 14, p. 239.Vol. 16, pp. 47,94. Interior, in the administration of the Act of June nine, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act to alter and amend an Act entitled ‘An Act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Central Pacific Railroad, in California, to Portland, in Oregon,’ approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as amended by the Acts of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight and eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and to alter and amend an Act entitled ‘An Act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Portland to Astoria and McMinnville, in the State of Oregon,’ approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and for other purposes” (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and eighteen), is hereby authorized and empowered, in his discretion, to exchange lands formerly embraced within the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and revested m the United States by said Act for other lands of approximately equal aggregate value held in private ownership, either within or contiguous to the former limits of said grant, when by such action he will be enabled thereby advantageously to consolidate the holdings of timber lands by the United States: *Provided*, That all lands and*Proviso*.Disposal of acquired lands, etc. timber secured by virtue of such exchange shall be disposed of in accordance with the terms and provisions of said Act of revestment.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized toRegulations, etc. perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into full force and effect. Approved, May 31, 1918.