Chapter 61. To amend an Act approved February 22, 1889, entitled “An Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with t
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CHAP. 61.— An Act To amend an Act approved February 22, 1889, entitled “An Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States.” August 11, 1921. [[S. 252](/us/bill/67/s/252).] [[Public, No. 48](/us/pl/67/48).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, North and South Dakota school lands.
Vol. 25, p. 680, amended. That section 11 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to make donations of public lands to such States, approved February 22, 1889, be, and the same hereby is, Rights of way, etc., authorized on.amended by adding the following: *Provided, however*, That the State may, upon such terms as it may prescribe, grant such easements or rights in such lands as may be acquired in, to, or over the lands of private properties through proceedings in eminent domain: 159 *And provided further*, That any of such granted lands found, afterLeasing of mineral lands. title thereto has vested in the State, to be mineral in character, may be leased for a period not longer than twenty years upon such terms and conditions as the legislature may prescribe.
Approved, August 11, 1921.