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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 43 STAT. · March 3, 1925 · Chapter 470

Chapter 470. Granting certain public lands to the city of Phoenix, Arizona, for municipal park and other purposes

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CHAP. 470.— An Act Granting certain public lands to the city of Phoenix, Arizona, for municipal park and other purposes. March 3, 1925.[[H. R. 11644](/us/bill/68/hr/11644).][[Public, No. 588](/us/pl/68/588).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That lots 1 and 2,Public lands.Granted Phoenix, Ariz., for municipal park, etc.Description. northeast quarter northwest quarter, and northwest quarter northeast quarter, section 7, township 1 south, range 4 east, Gila and 1214Salt River meridian, Arizona, be, and the same are hereby granted to the city of Phoenix, Arizona, for municipal park, recreation, playground, or public convenience purposes, upon the condition that Payment required.the city shall make payment for such land at the rate of $1.25 per acre to the receiver of the United States Land Office, Phoenix, Arizona, within six months after the approval of this Act: *Provided*,*Provisos.*Mineral deposits reserved.
That there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or other mineral deposits found at any time in the land, and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same: *Provided further*, Existing rights not impaired.That the grant herein is made subject to any valid existing claim or easement, and that the lands hereby granted shall be used by the city of Phoenix, Arizona, only for the purposes herein indicated, 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 empoweredReversion for non-user. to declare such a forfeiture of the grant, and restore said premises to the public domain, if at any time he shall determine that the city has for more than one year, abandoned the land for the uses herein indicated, 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 this grant.
Approved, March 3, 1925.
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