Chapter 290. Granting one hundred and sixty acres of land to the Western State College of Colorado at Gunnison, Colorado, for the use of the Rocky Mountain biological station of said college
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CHAP. 290.— An Act Granting one hundred and sixty acres of land to the Western State College of Colorado at Gunnison, Colorado, for the use of the Rocky Mountain biological station of said college. June 7, 1924.[[H. R. 3104](/us/bill/68/hr/3104).][[Public, No. 212](/us/pl/68/212).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary Public lands.Granted to Western State College of Colorado, for use as biological station.of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to convey to the board of trustees of the Western State College of Colorado at Gunnison, Colorado, subject to the provisions and reservations of section 24 of the Federal Water Power Act, and with a reservation to the United States of all the coal and other minerals in the lands granted, All mineral rights re-served.together with the right of the United States, its grantees or permittees, to prospect for, mine, and remove the same, the following described land, to wit, the south half of the southwest quarter of Location.section 14 and the west half of the northwest quarter of section 23, all in township 51 north, range 1 east, New Mexico meridian, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, more or less, for use of the Rocky Mountain biological station of the said college: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Reversion if abandoned as biological station.That the lands hereby granted shall be used by the State only for the purpose of a biological station, and if the said land or any part thereof shall be abandoned for such use, said land or such part shall revert to the United States; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to declare such a forfeiture of the grant and to restore said premises to the public domain, if at any time he shall determine that the State has abandoned the land for the use of a biological station, and such order of the Secretary shall be final and conclusive, and thereupon and thereby said premises shall be restored to the public domain and freed from the operation of the grant aforesaid.
Approved, June 7, 1924.