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Chap. 219: To authorize the exchange of certain public lands in the State of Utah, and for other purposes. Chapter 219 45 Stat. 1186 1929-02-15 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 219.— Joint Resolution To authorize the exchange of certain public lands in the State of Utah, and for other purposes.
February 15, 1929.[[H. J. Res. 356](/us/bill/70/hjres/356).][[Pub. Res., No. 84](/us/bill/70/pubres/84).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.Acceptance of lands valuable for, and public lands given in exchange. That when the public interests will be benefited thereby the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized, in his discretion, to accept on behalf of the United States title to any lands, surveyed or unsurveyed, within township 7 north, ranges 2 and 3 west, and townships 8, 9, and 10 north, ranges 2, 3, 4, and 5 west, Salt Lake Meridian, Utah, which in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture are chiefly valuable for the purposes contemplated under the Act *Ante*, p. 448.approved April 23, 1928 (Forty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 448), and in exchange therefor may patent not to exceed an equal value of surveyed unappropriated lands owned by the United States within rhe said *Proviso.*Publication of proposed exchanges.townships nonmineral in character: *Provided*, That before any such exchange is effected notice of the contemplated exchange reciting the lands involved shall be published once each week for four successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties in which may be situated the lands to be accepted and in some like newspaper published in the county in which may be situated any lands to be given in such exchange.
Approved, February 15, 1929.