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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · February 7, 1929 · Chapter 160

Chapter 160. Providing for the acquirement by the United States of privately owned lands situated within certain townships in the Lincoln National Forest, in the State of New Mexico, by exchanging therefor lands on the public domain also within such State

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Chap. 160: Providing for the acquirement by the United States of privately owned lands situated within certain townships in the Lincoln National Forest, in the State of New Mexico, by exchanging therefor lands on the public domain also within such State. 1929-02-07 160 Chapter 45 Stat. 1154 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public Chapter 160.— An Act Providing for the acquirement by the United States of privately owned lands situated within certain townships in the Lincoln National Forest, in the State of New Mexico, by exchanging therefor lands on the public domain also within such State. February 7, 1929.[[H. R. 12113](/us/bill/70/hr/12113).][[Public, No. 707](/us/pl/70/707).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Lincoln National Forest, N.
Mex.Acquirement of privately owned lands in. That whenever the owner or owners of any privately owned lands, situated within townships 16 and 17 south, range 13 east, New Mexico principal meridian, within the county of Otero and State of New Mexico, and within the present boundaries of the Lincoln National Forest, shall submit to the Secretary of Agriculture a proposal for the exchange of said lands for lands upon the public domain situated elsewhere in the State of New Mexico, and such Secretary shall be of opinion that the acquirement of the same by the United States for national-forest purposes would be beneficial thereto, he is hereby authorized and empowered to transmit to the Secretary of the Interior such offer so made to him, together with such recommendations as he may see proper to make in connection therewith, together with a description of the property included in such offer and an estimate of the commercial or other value thereof, intrinsically or otherwise; and if he1155shall recommend the acquirement of the same by the United States under the provisions hereof, then, in such event, the Secretary of theExchange for, of public lands.
Interior shall be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, in Bis discretion, to enter into and conclude negotiations with such owner or owners thereof, and in exchange for such designated privately owned lands, and upon conveyance by the owner or owners thereof to the United States by a good and sufficient deed, to cause to bePatents to be issued. patented to such owner or owners such acreage of nonmineral, non-irrigable grazing lands not suitable for agricultural purposes, except for raising grass, situated within the said State of New Mexico, of equal value, as near as he may be able to determine, to the lands so conveyed to the United States.
Sec. 2. That any lands conveyed to the United States under theAdded to the Forest. provisions of this Act shall, upon acceptance of the conveyance thereof, become and be a part of such Lincoln National Forest. Sec. 3. That before any exchange of lands as above provided isNotice of proposed exchange to be published. effected, notice of such exchange proposal describing the lands involved therein shall be published once each week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county in which such lands so to be conveyed to the United States are situated.
Approved, February 7, 1929.
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