Chapter 222. Permitting the State of Wyoming to reconvey certain lands to the United States and select other lands in lieu thereof and providing for the patenting of certain lands to Natrona County, Wyoming, for public-park purposes
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CHAP. 222.— An Act Permitting the State of Wyoming to reconvey certain lands to the United States and select other lands in lieu thereof and providing for the patenting of certain lands to Natrona County, Wyoming, for public-park purposes. March 3, 1923.[[S. 4146](/us/bill/67/s/4146).][[Public, No. 483](/us/pl/67/483).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Wyoming may exchange designated school section for other selection of.
That upon delivery to the Secretary of the Interior by the State of Wyoming of its properly executed and duly recorded deed or deeds reconveying to the United States of America in fee simple the lands in section 36, township 36 north, range 86 west of the sixth principal meridian, containing approximately six hundred and forty acres, the said State shall be authorized and permitted to select an equal number 1439of acres from the unreserved, nonmineral, nontimbered, unappropriated public lands of the United States in said State, for the same purposes, and subject to the same conditions and limitations under which the lands so reconveyed were held.
Sec. 2. That when the title to section 36, township 36 north,Natrona County.Revested section, etc., granted to, for public park. range 86 west of the sixth principal meridian, shall have revested in the United States pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause a patent to issue conveying the said section 36, township 36 north, range 86 west, together with the north half of section 1, township 35 north, range 86 west of the sixth principal meridian, to Natrona County, Wyoming, in trust for the purpose of a public park, but in said patent there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, and other mineralMineral deposits reserved. deposits, within said lands and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.
Sec. 3. That the grant herein is made upon the express conditionReport as to compliance with terms, etc. that within thirty days of the receipt of any request therefor from the Secretary of the Interior the county clerk of Natrona County, Wyoming, shall submit to the Secretary of the Interior a report as to the use made of the land herein granted the county during the preceding period named in such request, showing compliance with the terms and conditions stated in this Act; and that in the eventGrant forfeited on failure, etc. of his failure to so report, or in the event of a showing in such report to the Secretary of the Interior that the terms of the grant have not been complied with, the grant shall be held to be forfeited, and the Attorney General of the United States shall institute suit in the proper court for the recovery of said lands.
Approved, March 3, 1923.