Chapter 67. Authorizing the city of Boulder, Colorado, to purchase certain public lands
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CHAP. 67.— An Act Authorizing the city of Boulder, Colorado, to purchase certain public lands. September 29, 1919. [[H. R. 6410](/us/bill/66/hr/6410).] [[Public, No. 55](/us/pl/66/55).] *Be it enacted by the Senate a nd House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the city of Boulder, Public lands.289in the county of Boulder, Colorado, is hereby authorized, for a period Boulder, Colo., granted additional lands for water supply.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 use in connection with the lands heretofore purchased by said city under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled, “An Vol. 34, p. 1223.Act to grant certain lands to the city of Boulder, Colorado,” approved March 2, 1907 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 1223), for purposes of water storage and supply of its waterworks, the following described lands, to wit:
The west half of section twenty-seven and the north Description.half of the northwest quarter of section thirty-four, township one north, range seventy-three west, sixth principal meridian, containing four hundred acres within the Colorado National Forest, or any part of said lands. Sec. 2. That the said conveyance shall be made upon the payment Price.by said city for the lands purchased at the rate of $1.25 per acre: *Provided,* That the conveyance hereby authorized shall not include *Provisos.*Prior rights not affected.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 shall be reserved Mineral deposits 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: *And provided further,* That said city shall Reversion for nonuser.not have the right to sell or convey the land herein granted, or any part thereof, or to devote the same to any other purpose than as hereinbefore described; and if the said land shall not be used for such municipal purpose, the same, or such parts thereof not so used, shall revert to the United States; the conditions and reservations herein provided for shall be expressed in the patent.
Approved, September 29, 1919.