Chapter 104. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands in Powell town site, Shoshone reclamation project, Wyoming, to Park County, Wyoming
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CHAP. 104.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands in Powell town site, Shoshone reclamation project, Wyoming, to Park County, Wyoming.April 3, 1926. [[S. 1169](/us/bill/69/s/1169).] [[Public, No. 91](/us/pl/69/91).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Shoshone Reclamation Project, Wyo.Grant of lands in, to Park County, Wyo., for fair grounds. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause a patent to issue conveying blocks 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 16, and the east half of blocks 6 and 13, town site of Powell, on the Shoshone reclamation project, Wyoming, to Park County, Wyoming, in trust for use as a county fair grounds; but in said patent there shall beMinerals reserved reserved to the United States all oil, coal, and other mineral deposits within said lands and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.
Sec. 2. The conveyance herein is made upon the express conditionCondition of use, etc. that within thirty days of the receipt of any request therefor from the Secretary of the Interior the county clerk of Park County, Wyoming, shall submit to the Secretary of the Interior a report as to the use made of the land herein granted the county during the preceding period named in such request, showing compliance with the terms and conditions stated in this Act; and that in the eventReversion for non-user, etc. of his failure to so report, or in the event of a showing in such report to the Secretary of the Interior that the terms of the grant have not been complied with, the grant shall be held to be forfeited, and the title shall revert to the United States, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to determine the facts and declare such forfeiture and such reversion and restore said land to the public domain, and such order of the Secretary shall be final and conclusive.
Approved, April 3, 1926.