Chapter 322. Granting certain lands to the city of Bountiful, Utah, to protect the watershed of the water-supply system of said city
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CHAP. 322.— An Act Granting certain lands to the city of Bountiful, Utah, to protect the watershed of the water-supply system of said city.March 3, 1927.[[H. R. 13212](/us/bill/69/hr/13212).][[Public, No. 725](/us/pl/69/725).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Granted Bountiful, Utah, to protect watershed. That upon payment of $1.25 per acre there is hereby granted to the city of Bountiful, Utah, and the Secretary of the interior is hereby authorized and directed to issue patent to the city of Bountiful, Utah, for certain public lands for the protection of the watershed furnishing the water Description.for said city, the lands being described as follows :
All of section 24, township 2 north, range 1 east, Salt Lake meridian, and containing approximately six hundred and forty acres, more or less. Sec. 2. Existing rights not affected. The conveyance hereby authorized shall not include any lands which at the date of the issuance of patent shall be covered by a valid existing bona fide right or claim initiated under the laws of the United States: *Provided*, That there shall be reserved to the *Provisos*.Mineral deposits reserved.United States all oil, coal, and other mineral deposits that may be found on the lands so granted and the right to prospect for, mine, Reversion for non-user, etc.and remove the same: *Provided further*, That said city shall not have the right to sell or convey the land herein granted, or any part thereof, or to devote the same to any other purpose than as herein-before described; and if the said land shall not be used for such municipal purpose the same, or such parts thereof not so used, shall revert to the United States.
The conditions and reservations herein provided for shall be expressed in the patent. Approved, March 3, 1927.