Chapter 105. To consolidate national forest lands
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CHAP. 105.— An Act To consolidate national forest lands. March 20, 1922.[[S. 490](/us/bill/67/s/490).][[Public, No. 173](/us/pl/67/173).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That, when the public interestsNational forests.Exchange of lands within, authorized. will be benefited thereby, the Secretary of the Interior tie, and hereby is, authorized in his discretion to accept on behalf of the United States title to any lands within the exterior boundaries of the national forests which, in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, are chiefly valuable for national forest purposes, and in exchange thereforLand or timber in exchange. may patent not to exceed an equal value of such national forest land, in the same State, surveyed and nonmineral in character, or the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the grantor to cut and remove an equal value of timber within the national forests of the same State; the values in each case to be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture: *Provided*, That before any such exchange is effected*Proviso*.Publication of proposed exchange. notice of the contemplated exchange reciting the lands involved shall be published once each week for four successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties in which may be situated the lands to be accepted, and in some like newspaper published in any county in which may be situated any lands or timber to be given in such exchange.
Timber given in such exchanges shallRemoval of timber. be cut and removed under the laws and regulations relating to the national forests, and under the direction and supervision and in466 accordance with the requirements of the Secretary of Agriculture.Accepted lands added to national forest. Lands conveyed to the United States under this Act shall, upon acceptance of title, become parts of the national forest within whose exterior boundaries they are located. Approved, March 20, 1922.