Chapter 167. Providing for the acquirement by the United States of privately owned lands in San Miguel, Mora, Taos, and Colfax Counties, New Mexico, within the Mora grant, and adjoining one or more national forests, by exchanging therefore lands or timber within the exterior boundaries of any national forest sit
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CHAP. 167.— An Act Providing for the acquirement by the United States of privately owned lands in San Miguel, Mora, Taos, and Colfax Counties, New Mexico, within the Mora grant, and adjoining one or more national forests, by exchanging therefore lands or timber within the exterior boundaries of any national forest situated within the State of New Mexico or the State of Arizona.April 21, 1926.[[H. R. 6355](/us/bill/69/hr/6355).][[Public, No. 138](/us/69/pl/138).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,National forests.Private lands in Mora grant, New Mexico, may be accepted for purposes of.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion to accept on behalf of the United States title to ail or any part of privately owned lands, situated within the Mora grant, as described in the patent issued by the United States, located in the counties of San Miguel, Mora, Taos, and Colfax, in the State of New Mexico, and adjoining one or more national forests, 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, andLands in New Mexico or Arizona in exchange. in exchange therefor to patent not to exceed an equal value of national forest land in that State or the State of Arizona, or the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize grantor to cut and remove an equal value of timber within the national forests of the StateTimber from national forests in exchange. of New Mexico or of the State of Arizona, the value 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 the direction and supervision and inSupervision of cutting and removing timber.*Proviso*.Consent of Governor of Arizona for timber in that State. accordance with the requirements of the Secretary of Agriculture: *Provided*, That the consent and approval of the Governor of Arizona shall have first been secured before any timber is given in exchange in the State of Arizona under this Act.
Sec. 2. Lands offered for exchange hereunder and not covered byIdentification of lands offered. public land surveys or identified by surveys of the United States 304shall be identified by metes and bounds surveys, and that such surveys and the plats and field notes thereof may be made by employees of the United States Forest Service and approved by the United States Surveyor General. Sec. 3. Added to Carson or Santa Fe National Forests.Any lands conveyed to the United States under the pro-visions of this Act shall, upon acceptance of the conveyance thereof, become and be a part of the Carson National Forest or of the Santa Fe National Forest, as the Secretary of Agriculture may determine.
Sec. 4. Advertising of proposed exchanges.Before any such exchange is effected notice of the contemplated exchange reciting the lands involved shall be published once each week for four successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties in which may be situated the lands to be accepted, and in some like newspaper published in any county in which may be situated any lands or timber to be given In such exchange. Approved, April 21, 1926.