Chapter 106. Authorizing the conveyance of certain land to the city of Miles City, State of Montana, for park purposes
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CHAP. 106.— An Act Authorizing the conveyance of certain land to the city of Miles City, State of Montana, for park purposes. April 15, 1924.[[S. 303](/us/bill/68/s/303).][[Public, No. 85](/us/pl/68/85).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Public lands.Granted to Miles City, Mont. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to convey by patent to the city of Miles City, a municipal corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Montana, the following tract of public land, to wit:
Description.Beginning at a point which is south eighteen degrees fifteen minutes west from the center of section thirty-three, township eight north, of range forty-seven east, Montana principal meridian, and 97distant therefrom one thousand six hundred and sixty feet; thence north thirty-six degrees no minutes west one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five feet; thence north sixty-eight degrees ten minutes east one thousand one hundred and five feet; thence north eighty-eight degrees forty minutes east three hundred and eighty feet; thence south fifty-nine degrees five minutes east three hundred and seventy-five feet; thence south twenty-eight degrees thirty-five minutes east three hundred and sixty-five feet; thence south twelve degrees fifty minutes east two hundred and eighty-five feet; thence south fourteen degrees ten minutes west two hundred and fifteen feet; thence south forty degrees twenty-five minutes west three hundred and twenty-five feet; thence south forty-six degrees twenty-five minutes west five hundred and five feet; thence south twenty-nine degrees thirty minutes west three hundred and ninety feet to the point of beginning, containing forty-eight and three-tenths acres, more or less.
That this grant is made upon the payment of $1.25 per acre, andPayment required. before patent may issue the Secretary of the Interior shall cause a survey to be made of the tract herein granted, and that there shall be excepted from such survey and from the grant herein made the land covered by the Tongue River. Said patent shall be issued upon the express condition that theTo be used as a public park. city of Miles City shall use said tract of land for municipal purposes as a public park for the benefit of the citizens of said city: *Provided*, That whenever said lands shall cease to be used by said*Provisos*.Reversion for non-user. city for municipal purposes or attempted to be sold or conveyed, then, and in that event, title to such lands and the whole thereof shall revert to the United States: *Provided further*, That suchMineral deposits reserved. patent shall contain a reservation to the United States of all gas, oil, coal, and other mineral deposits as may be found in such land and the right to the use of the land for extracting and removing the same.
Approved, April 15, 1924.