Chapter 74. Providing for the acquirement by the United States of privately owned lands within Taos County, New Mexico, known as the Santa Barbara grant, by exchanging therefor timber, or lands and timber, within the exterior boundaries of any national forest situated within the State of New Mexico
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CHAP. 74.— An Act Providing for the acquirement by the United States of privately owned lands within Taos County, New Mexico, known as the Santa Barbara grant, by exchanging therefor timber, or lands and timber, within the exterior boundaries of any national forest situated within the State of New Mexico. January 12, 1925.[[S. 1762](/us/bill/68/s/1762).][[Public, No. 319](/us/pl/68/319).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary National forests.Private lands in Santa Barbara grant, N.
Mex., may be accepted for purposes of.of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized in his discretion to accept on behalf of the United States title to all or any part of privately owned lands, situated within the Santa Barbara grant, located within the county of Taos. State of New Mexico, if in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture public interests will be benefited thereby, and the lands are chiefly valuable for national forest purposes, and in exchange therefor the Secretary of National forest timber allowed in exchange.Agriculture may authorize the grantor to cut and remove an equal value of timber within the national forests of the same State; the values in each case to be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture and acceptable to the grantor as a fair compensation.
Timber given in exchange shall be cut and removed under the laws and regulations relating to the national forests, and under Supervision of cutting and removal of timber.the direction and supervision and in accordance with the requirements of the Secretary of Agriculture. Sec. 2. That lands offered for exchange hereunder and not Identification of lands offered.covered by public land surveys shall be identified by metes and bounds surveys and that such surveys and the plats and field notes thereof shall be made by employees of the United States Forest Service and approved by the United States Surveyor General.
Sec. 3. That any lands conveyed to the United States under the Made a part of Carson National Forest.provisions of this Act shall, upon acceptance of the conveyance thereof, become and be a part of Carson National Forest. Sec. 4. That before any exchange of lands for timber as above Advertising of pro-posed exchange.provided is effected, notice of such exchange proposal, describing the lands involved therein, shall be published once each week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county in which such lands so to be conveyed to the United States are situated.
Approved, January 12, 1925.