Chapter 86. Granting certain lands to the city of Sparks, Nevada, for a dumping ground for garbage, and other municipal purposes
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CHAP. 86.— An Act Granting certain lands to the city of Sparks, Nevada, for a dumping ground for garbage, and other municipal purposes.March 23, 1926. [[H. R. 8590](/us/bill/69/hr/8590).] [[Public, No. 74](/us/pl/69/74).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public lands.Granted to Sparks, Nev„ for municipal purposes. That the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 2, township 19 north, range 20 east, M.
D. M., Nevada, be, and the same is hereby, granted to the city of Sparks, Nevada, for a dumping ground for garbage Payment required.and other municipal purposes, upon condition that the city shall make payment for the land at the rate of $1.25 per acre within six *Provisos*.Mineral deposits reserved.months after the approval of this Act: *Provided*, That there shall be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or other mineral deposits found at any time in the land, and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same under such rules and regulations as the Reversion for non-user, etc.Secretary of the Interior may provide: *Provided further*, That the grant herein is made subject to any valid existing claim or easements, and that the land hereby granted shall be used by the city of Sparks, Nevada, only for a dumping ground for garbage and other municipal purposes, and if the said land or any part thereof shall be abandoned 223for such use said land or such part shall revert to the United States; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to declare such a forfeiture of the grant and to restore said premises to the public domain if at any time he shall determine that the city has for more than one year abandoned the land for the uses herein indicated, and such order of the Secretary shall be final and conclusive, and thereupon and thereby said premises shall be restored to the public domain and freed from the operations of this grant.
Approved, March 23, 1926.