Chapter 157. To provide for conveyance of certain lands in the State of Alabama for State park and game preserve purposes
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CHAP. 157.— An Act To provide for conveyance of certain lands in the State of Alabama for State park and game preserve purposes. February 17, 1927.[[H. R. 11421](/us/bill/69/hr/11421).][[Public, No. 627](/us/pl/69/627).] *Be it it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Conveyed to Alabama for State park, etc. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed upon payment of $1.25 per acre to transfer and convey to the State of Alabama subject to valid existing rights, including rights heretofore granted to Subject to valid rights.Vol. 34, p. 818.Description.Henry T.
Henderson and associates by Act of Congress approved June 30, 1906, the following described parcels of land: In township 8 south, range 9 east, Huntsville meridian, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, section 1, lots 1, 2, and 3, section 2, lots 1, and 2, section 10, lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, section 11, lot 1, section 12, lots 1, 2, and 3, section 14, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, section 15, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, section 22, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, section 23, lots 1, and 2, section 26, east half northeast quarter, lots 1, 2. 3, 4, and 5, section 27, lot 1, section 28, lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, section 33, and lots 1, and 2, section 34, containing one thousand six hundred and twenty-live and nineteen one-hundredths acres more or less, the same to be held and made available permanently by said State as a State park and game preserve under such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for use thereof *Proviso*.Reversion for inconsistent use, etc.by the public: *Provided*, That should the State of Alabama fail to keep and hold the said land for park and game preserve purposes or devote it to any use inconsistent with said purposes, then at the option of the Secretary of the Interior, after due notice to said State and such proceeding as he shall determine, title to said land shall revert to and be reinvested in the United States: *Provided Mineral rights reserved.further*, That there shall be reserved to the United States all gas, oil, coal, or other mineral deposits found at any time in the said lands and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.
Sec. 2. Water power reservation. There is expressly reserved to the United States, its permittees or licensees, the right to enter upon, take or use any or all of said lands for power purposes in accordance with the terms Vol. 41, p. 1075.and conditions of section 24 of the Federal Water Power Act (Forty-first Statutes, page 1063). Approved, February 17, 1927.