Chapter 198. To authorize the purchase by the city of Myrtle Point, Oregon, of certain lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and revested in the United States by the Act approved June 9, 1916
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CHAP. 198.— An Act To authorize the purchase by the city of Myrtle Point, Oregon, of certain lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and revested in the United States by the Act approved June 9, 1916. May 25, 1920. [[H. R. 10285](/us/bill/66/hr/10285).] [[Public, No. 218](/us/pl/66/218).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of theMyrtle Point, Oreg.Granted land in revested Oregon-California Railroad grant.
Interior shall be, and is hereby, authorized to issue a patent to the city of Myrtle Point, Oregon, for the following described lands, being622Vol. 39, p. 218.a part of the lands revested in the United States by the Act of Congress enacted June 9, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 218), to wit: The south half of the southeast quarter of section eleven, and the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section thirteen, all in township twenty-nine south, range twelve west, of the Willamette Payment required.meridian, in the State of Oregon; on condition that the said city first shall pay to the United States, when said lands are subject to disposition under said Act of revestment, the sum of $2.50 per acre for all of said lands and the appraised price of the timber on all such lands *Proviso*.Mineral deposits reserved.as may be classified as timberlands: *Provided*, That there shall 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 lands for extracting the same.
Sec. 2. Regulations to be prescribed. That the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe all necessary regulations to carry into effect the foregoing provisions of this act. Approved, May 25, 1920.