Chapter 301. Granting public lands to the city of Golden, Colorado, to secure a supply of water for municipal and domestic purposes
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CHAP. 301.— An Act Granting public lands to the city of Golden, Colorado, to secure a supply of water for municipal and domestic purposes. June 7, 1924.[[H. R. 7998](/us/bill/68/hr/7998).][[Public, No. 223](/us/pl/68/223).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Public lands. That for the purpose of securing an adequate supply of water for domestic and municipal 539purposes for the use of the city of Golden, Colorado, there is hereby Granted to Golden, Colo., for water supply.Description.granted to the said city the lands described as follows:
In Clear Creek County, Colorado, township 4 south, range 72 west of the sixth principal meridian; northwest quarter of southeast quarter, south half of southwest quarter, section 8; north half of northwest quarter, southwest quarter of northeast quarter, north half of southeast quarter, south half of south half, section 17; southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, section 20, northwest quarter of southeast quarter; southeast quarter of southeast quarter, section 21; south half of north half, southeast quarter, south half of southwest quarter, section 22; north half of north half, southwest quarter of northeast quarter, southeast quarter of northwest quarter, section 27; east half of northwest quarter, section 28; total one thousand three hundred and twenty acres, more or less, on condition that the said Payment.city shall make payment for such lands at the rate of 81.25 per acre to the receiver of the United States land office at Denver, Colorado, within one year after approval of this Act: *Provided*, That there *Proviso*.Mineral deposits re-served.shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or other mineral deposits found at any time in the lands, and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same: *Provided further*, That the grant Existing rights, etc., protected.herein made is subject to any valid existing rights or easements on said lands, and that upon failure of the city for one year to make Reversion for non-user.use of the lands herein granted, in accordance with the purpose of this Act, all rights hereunder shall cease and such lands revert to the United States.
Sec. 2. That the Act of Congress approved August 25, 1914 Former grant of described lands, repealed.Vol. 38, p. 706.(Thirty-eighth Statutes, page 706), entitled “An Act granting public lands to the city and county of Denver, in the State of Colorado, for public park purposes,” is hereby repealed in so far as it authorizes the disposition of any of the lands described in section 1 hereof. Approved, June 7, 1924.