Chapter 492. Authorizing the city of Boulder, Colorado, to purchase certain public lands
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CHAP. 492.— An Act Authorizing the city of Boulder, Colorado, to purchase certain public lands.March 4, 1927.[[H. R. 10467](/us/bill/69/hr/10467).][[Public, No. 786](/us/pl/69/786).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands. Boulder, Colo., may purchase additional lands for water supply. Vol. 34, p. 1223. That the city of Boulder, in the county of Boulder, Colorado, is hereby authorized, for a period of three years from and after the passage of this Act, to purchase, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to convey to said city for use in connection with the lands heretofore purchased by said city under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to grant certain lands to the city of Boulder, Colorado,” approved March 2, 1907 (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 1223), for purposes of water storage and supply of its waterworks, the following-described lands, to wit:
The west half of the northwestDescription. quarter and the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 17; the northeast quarter, the north half of the northwest quarter, and the south half of the southwest quarter of section 18; the north half of section 19; the south half of the northwest quarter of section 29; the south half of the north half, the west half of the southeast quarter, and the southwest quarter of section 30; all of township 1 north, range 73 west; also all of section 13, the south half of the northeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 14; the east half of the northeast quarter and the south-east quarter of section 23; the west half and the northeast quarter of section 24; the southeast quarter, the northwest quarter, the south half of the northeast quarter, and the north half of the southwest quarter of section 25; the east half and the east half of the west half of section 26 ; all of township 1 north, range 74 west, sixth principal meridian, containing three thousand six hundred and eighty-nineWithin Colorado National Forest. acres within the Colorado National Forest, or any part of said lands.
Sec. 2. That the said conveyance shall be made upon the paymentPayment required. by said city for the lands purchased at the rate of $1.25 per acre: *Provided*, That the conveyance hereby authorized shall not include*Provisos*.Existing rights not affected. 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 further*, That there shallReservation of timber, and mineral deposits. be reserved to the United States all merchantable timber and all oil, coal, and other mineral deposits that may be found in the lands so granted and all necessary use of the lands for extracting the same under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the InteriorUse of land restricted. shall prescribe: *And 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 suchReversion for non-user, etc. municipal purpose, the same, or such parts thereof not so used, shall revert to the United States and the lands shall be restored 1412 to the public domain upon a finding of such failure by the Secretary of the Interior; the conditions and reservations herein provided for shall be expressed in the patent.
Approved, March 4, 1927.