Chapter 226. Regulating the disposition of lands formerly embraced in the grants to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and Coos Bay Wagon Road Company
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CHAP. 226.— An Act Regulating the disposition of lands formerly embraced in the grants to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and Coos Bay Wagon Road Company. June 4, 1920. [[H. R. 9392](/us/bill/66/hr/9392).] [[Public, No. 241](/us/pl/66/241).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Public lands.Oregon - California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road lands, Oreg.Vol. 39, p. 218.Vol. 40, p. 1179.Sales of timber on power sites on revested lands.
That in the administration of the Act approved June 9, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 218), revesting title in the United States to the lands formerly granted to the Oregon and California Railroad Company remaining unsold July 1, 1913, and the Act approved February 26, 1919 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 1179), authorizing the United States to accept from the Southern Oregon Company a reconveyance of the lands granted to the State of Oregon by the Act approved March 3, 1869, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to sell the timber on lands classified and withdrawn as power-site lands, in such manner and at such times as he is now authorized to sell the timber from lands classified as timberlands: *Proviso*.Preference rights recognized.Vol. 39, p. 220.Vol. 40, p. 1180.*Provided*, That if a valid claim for a preferred right of homestead entry, in accordance with the terms of section 5 of said Act of June 9, 1916, or a preference right of purchase or entry under section 3 of said Act of February 26, 1919, is shown to exist for lands thus classified and withdrawn, it may be exercised therefor, as provided in section 2 hereof.
Sec. 2. Compensation for overflow damages, etc. That the lands embraced in homestead entries or sales authorized by the proviso to section 1 hereof shall be subject to disposition as water-power sites upon the compensation of the owner of the land for actual damages sustained by the loss of his improvements thereon, through the use of the land for water-power purposes, such damages to be ascertained and awarded under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior; and the rights reserved under this section shall be expressly stated in the patent.
Sec. 3. Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands.Exchanges of lands with private owners of, authorized.Vol. 40, p. 593. That the provisions of the Act of Congress approved May 31, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 593), “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,” as amended in section 4 of this Act, shall be extended to the lands reconveyed to the United States under the terms of said Act of February 26, 1919, and authorize the exchange of lands embraced therein, in like manner and for the same purpose.
Sec. 4. Fees required.Vol. 40, p. 593, amended. That said Act of May 31, 1918, is hereby so amended as to require the applicant for exchange to pay a filing fee of $1 each to the register and receiver for each one hundred and sixty acres or fraction thereof of the public lands embraced in proposed selections, whether now pending or hereafter tendered. Sec. 5. Rules, etc., to be prescribed. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to 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, June 4, 1920.