Chapter 586. To authorize the purchase by the city of Yamhill, Oregon, of certain lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and revested in the United States by the Act approved June 9, 1916
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CHAP. 586.— An Act To authorize the purchase by the city of Yamhill, Oregon, of certain lands formerly embraced in the grant to the Oregon and California Railroad Company and revested in the United States by the Act approved June 9, 1916.June 15, 1926. [[S. 3655](/us/bill/69/s/3658).] [[Public, No. 391](/us/pl/69/391).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Yamhill, Oreg., may purchase lands in revested Oregon-California Railroad grant.Vol. 39, p. 218.
That the Secretary of the Interior shall be, and is hereby, authorized to issue a patent to the city of Yamhill, Oregon, for the following-described lands, being a part of the lands revested in the United States by the Act of Congress enacted June 9, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 218), to wit: The north half of the northeast quarter of section 9, town-shipDescription. 2 south, range 5 west, Willamette meridian, Yamhill County, Oregon, on condition that the said city shall first pay to the United States the sum of $2.50 per acre for said lands: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Rights reserved underwater power Act. there shall be reserved to the United States, its permittees or licensees, as to the land so patented, the right to enter thereon and take and use the same for power purposes, in accordance with the terms and conditions of section 24 of the Federal Water Power Act of June 10, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 1063), and toVol. 41, p. 1075. remove from said land all timber which in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior may be cut and removed without material damage to the watershed, but in the sale of such timber under thePreference to Yamhill to purchase timber. provisions of the said Act of June 9, 1916, supra, the said city of Yamhill shall have a preference right of purchase at the highest price bid.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe allRegulations to be prescribed. necessary regulations to carry into effect the foregoing provisions of this Act. Approved, June 15, 1926.