Chapter 465. Authorizing the issuance of patents to the State of South Dakota for park purposes of certain lands within the Custer State Park, now claimed under the United States general mining laws, and for other purposes
357 words·~2 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-43/chapter-465-4987153·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
CHAP. 465.— An Act Authorizing the issuance of patents to the State of South Dakota for park purposes of certain lands within the Custer State Park, now claimed under the United States general mining laws, and for other purposes. March 3, 1925.[[H. R. 11077](/us/bill/68/hr/11077).][[Public, No. 583](/us/pl/68/583).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary Custer State Park.South Dakota granted unpatented lands in.Vol. 41, p. 986.of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to issue to the State of South Dakota patents conveying title, but reserving the minerals therein, to any unpatented lands of the United States now held or claimed by virtue of locations made under the United States general mining laws, within the Custer State Park, not exceeding a total of two thousand acres, upon payment to the United Payments, etc.States of $1.25 per acre therefor, and upon evidence being furnished that all claim, right, title, and interest, of such claimants have been transferred to the State or have been abandoned.
Patents so issued to the State of South Dakota shall be conditioned upon the lands being used for park purposes, and provide for the reversion Reversion if not used for park purposes.of the lands of the United States in the event of failure to so hold and use. The United States reserves all coal, oil, gas, or other Mineral deposits.minerals in the lands patented under this Act with the right, in case any of said patented lands are found by the Secretary of the Interior to be more valuable for the minerals therein than for park purposes, to provide, by special legislation, having due regard for the rights of the State of South Dakota, for the disposition and extraction of the coal, oil, gas, or other minerals therein: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Situation limited.That the provisions of this Act are limited to lands lying within the limits of the Custer State Park, within townships 3 and 4 south, range 6 east, and the east one-third of townships 3 and 4 south, range 5 east.
Black Hills meridian. Approved, March 3, 1925.