Chapter 270. Granting certain lands to the State of New Mexico for the use and benefit of New Mexico College of Agriculture anti Mechanic Arts, for the purpose of conducting educational, demonstrative, and experimental development with livestock, grazing methods, and range forage plants
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CHAP. 270.— An Act Granting certain lands to the State of New Mexico for the use and benefit of New Mexico College of Agriculture anti Mechanic Arts, for the purpose of conducting educational, demonstrative, and experimental development with livestock, grazing methods, and range forage plants.March 2, 1927. [[S. 4910](/us/bill/69/s/4910).] [[Public, No. 687](/us/pl/69/687).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Grant to New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, for livestock developments, etc.
That there is hereby granted to the State of New Mexico for the use and benefit of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, located at State College, New Mexico, to be used for the purpose of conducting educational, demonstrative, and experimental development with livestock, grazing methods, and range forage plants, the following-described lands out of the unreserved and unappropriated public domain situated in the State of New Mexico, to wit: Description.*Post*, p. 1345.All of township 20 south, range 1 west, New Mexico principal meridian, except sections 1 to 5, both inclusive; north half of northeast quarter of section 8, north half and southeast quarter of section 9, all of sections 10 to 13, both inclusive; north half, southeast quarter and north half of southwest quarter of section 14, northeast quarter and east half of northwest quarter of section 15, all of section 16, northeast quarter and north half of northwest quarter of section 24, all of section 32, that part of sections 30 and 31 lying south and west of the Rio Grande River and all of section 36 therein; all of township 20 south, range 1 east, New Mexico principal meridian, except sections 2, 16, 32, and 36 therein; all of southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 19 and all of sections 30 and 31 in township 20 south, range 2 east, New Mexico principal meridian; all of the east half of the southeast quarter and the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 13, and the east half of the east half of section 24, in township 20 south, range 2 west, New Mexico principal meridian; all of section 1 and the east half of section 12, township 21 south, range 1 west, New Mexico principal meridian; all of township 21 south, range 1 east, New Mexico principal meridian, except sections 2, 16, 24, 25, 30, 31, 32, and 36 and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 29 therein; and all of sections 6, 7, and 18 in township 21 south, range *Proviso*.Control vested in Board of Regents.2 east, New Mexico principal meridian: *Provided*, That the control and management of said lands shall be vested exclusively in the Board of Regents of the said New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and the State of New Mexico shall make no charge against nor collect any rental from said college for the possession and use thereof.
Sec. 2. Existing rights protected.Such grant shall not include any land which, on the date of the approval of this Act, is covered by any existing bona fide right or claim under the laws of the United States, unless and until Mining permits.such right or claim is relinquished or extinguished, except, that lands embraced in permits to prospect for oil, gas or other minerals shall be included in the grant to the State, the minerals therein being reserved to the United States as provided in section 3 hereof.
Sec. 3. Mineral deposits reserved .There is hereby reserved to the United States all minerals that may be found in the lands granted by the provisions hereof, together with the right of the United States, its permittees, lessees, or grantees, at any time, to prospect for, mine, and remove such minerals. 1297 Sec. 4. In the event that the lands herein granted, or any partReversion for non-user, etc. thereof, shall cease to be used for the purposes specified in section 1, or shall be used for any other purpose foreign to those for which this grant is made, title thereto shall thereupon revert to the United States.
Approved, March 2, 1927.