Chapter 74. To permit the State of Montana to exchange cut-over timberlands granted for educational purposes for other lands of like character and approximate value
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CHAP. 74.— An Act To permit the State of Montana to exchange cut-over timberlands granted for educational purposes for other lands of like character and approximate value. February 14, 1923.[[S. 1878](/us/bill/67/s/1878).][[Public, No. 410](/us/67/pl/410).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That tracts ofMontana.Exchange of cut over school lands for reforesting by. timbered lands heretofore granted to the State of Montana for educational purposes, from which the timber has been cut or removed pursuant to State laws, may. under such rules and regulations as the legislature of said State shall prescribe, be exchanged for other lands of like character and approximately of equal value, in private ownership, which exchanged land shall be subject to the same requirements and limitations to the end that the State may acquire holdings in reasonably compact form and reforesting be undertaken in an economic manner, anything in the enabling act of said State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, February 14, 1923.