Chapter 111. To transfer jurisdiction over a portion of the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, Montana, from the Department of the Interior to the United States Department of Agriculture for experiments in stock raising and growing of forage crops in connection therewith
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CHAP. 111.— An Act To transfer jurisdiction over a portion of the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, Montana, from the Department of the Interior to the United States Department of Agriculture for experiments in stock raising and growing of forage crops in connection therewith. April 15, 1924.[[S. 2690](/us/bill/68/s/2690).][[Public, No. 90](/us/pl/68/90).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the SecretaryFort Keogh Military Reservation, Mont.Portion of, transferred to Agricultural Department for stock-raising experiments, etc. of War having determined that the lands embraced in the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, in the State of Montana, are no longer needed for military purposes, an Executive order of February 2, 1924, having transferred the said lands to the Department of the Interior for disposition, the said lands are hereby transferred to and placed under the control of the United States Department of Agriculture for use by that department for experiments in stock raising and growing of forage crops in connection therewith: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Reversion if use abandoned.
That if the lands are not used for the purpose mentioned herein, or haying been used for such purpose, are subsequently abandoned as being no longer needed for such purpose, then, and in that event, the said land shall revert to, and become subject to the control and jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior: *Provided further*, That this transfer shall not affect any existing legal rights to lands in the reservation: *And provided further*,Existing rights not affected.Lands excepted.
That there shall be excepted from the effect hereof that portion of said reservation described as follows: A tract beginning at a point which is south eighteen degreesDescription. fifteen minutes west from the center of section 33, township 8 north of range 47 east, Montana principal meridian, and distant 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.
Also a tract beginning at a point which is south five degrees thirty minutes west of the center of section 33, township 8 north, range 47 east of Montana principal meridian, and distant therefrom two thousand two hundred and eighty feet; thence south forty-one degrees thirty minutes west one thousand and eighty feet; thence north seventy-three degrees twenty minutes west one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five feet; thence north sixteen degrees forty minutes east two thousand three hundred and seventy-five feet; thence north sixty-eight degrees ten minutes east three hundred and forty100 feet; thence south thirty-five degrees forty-five minutes east two thousand six hundred and fifty-five feet, to the point of beginning, containing ninety-six and one-tenth acres, more or less.
Approved, April 15, 1924.