Chapter 404. For the relief of certain persons, their heirs or assigns, who heretofore relinquished lands inside national forests to the United States
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CHAP. 404.— An Act For the relief of certain persons, their heirs or assigns, who heretofore relinquished lands inside national forests to the United States. September 22, 1922.[[H. R. 8119](/us/bill/67/hr/8119).][[Public, No. 339](/us/67/pl/339).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That where any person orPublic lands.Persons relinqiuishing land for national forests and not receiving lieu selections.Vol. 34, p. 36;
Vol. 33, p. 1264.Exchange of portion authorized, for other forest lands or value in timber. persons in good faith relinquished to the United States lands in a national forest as a basis for a lieu selection under the Act of June 4, 1897 (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, pages 11, 36), and failed to get their lieu selections of record prior to the passage of the Act of March 3, 1905 (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page 1264), or whose lieu selections, though duly filed, are finally rejected, the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, upon application of such person or persons, their heirs or assigns, is authorized to accept title to such of the base lands as are desirable for national-forest purposes, which lands shall thereupon become parts of the nearest national forest, and, in exchange therefor, may issue patent for not to exceed an equal value of national-forest land, unoccupied, 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.
WhereIf exchange not agreed upon, title to revert to parties relinquishing. an exchange can not be agreed upon the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized to relinquish and quitclaim to such person or persons, their heirs or assigns, all title to such lands which the respective relinquishments of such person or persons may have vested in the United States: *Provided*, That such person or persons,*Proviso*.Proof of relinquishment to be made in five years. their heirs or assigns, shall, within five years after the date of this Act, make satisfactory proof of the relinquishment of such lands to the United States by submitting to the Commissioner of the General Land Office an abstract of title to such lands showing relinquishment of the same to the United States, which abstract or abstracts shall be retained in the files of the General Land Office.
Sec. 2. That if it shall appear that any of the lands relinquished toIf relinquished lands appropriated to other public use, title not to revert, without consent from officer having jurisdiction. the United States for the purpose stated in the preceding section have been disposed of or appropriated to a public use, other than the general purposes for which the forest reserve within the bounds of which they are situate was created, such lands shall not be relinquished and quitclaimed as provided therein, unless the head of the department having jurisdiction over the lands shall consent to such relinquishment; and if he shall fail to so consent, or if any of the landsOther public lands In lieu may be selected if consent not given. so relinquished have been otherwise disposed of by the United States, other surveyed, nonmineral, unoccupied, unreserved public lands of approximately equal area and value may be selected and patented in lieu of the lands so appropriated or disposed of in the manner and subject to the terms and conditions prescribed by said Act of1018*Proviso*.Applications to be made In three years.June 4, 1897, and the regulations issued thereunder: *Provided*, That applications to make such lieu selections must be filed in the General Land Office within three years after the date of this Act.
Approved, September 22, 1922.