Chapter 271. To authorize exchanges of lands with owners of private land holdings within the Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona
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CHAP. 271.— An Act To authorize exchanges of lands with owners of private land holdings within the Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona. May 14, 1930.[[H. R. 6874](/us/bill/71/hr/6874).][[Public, No. 215](/us/pl/71/215).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Petrified Forest National Monument. Ariz.Acquisition of privately owned lands within. That the Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of eliminating private holdings of land within the Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona, is hereby empowered, in his discretion, to obtain for the United States the complete title to any or all of the lands held in private ownership within the boundaries of the Petrified Forest National Monument, Arizona, as now or as may be hereafter defined, by accepting from the owners of such privately owned lands complete Public lands to be given in exchange.relinquishment thereof and by granting and patenting to such owners, in exchange therefor, in each instance, like public lands of equal value situated in Navajo and/or Apache Counties in the State of Arizona, after due notice of the proposed exchange has been given by publication for not less than thirty days in the counties where the lands *Proviso*.Nature of lands.proposed to be exchanged or taken in exchange are located: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior shall, on application or otherwise, designate public lands located outside the extreme boundaries of the said monument subject to exchange under this Act which are, in his opinion, chiefly valuable for grazing and raising forage crops, do not contain merchantable timber, are not susceptible of irrigation from any known source of water supply, and are of character similar to the privately owned lands offered in exchange.
Sec. 2. Value of lands to be ascertained. That the value of all patented lands within said monument offered for exchange, and the value of the lands of the United States to be given in exchange therefor, shall be ascertained in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct; and the owners of such privately owned lands within said monument shall, before any exchange is effective, furnish the Secretary of the Interior evidence Title required.satisfactory to him of title to the patented lands offered in exchange; and lands conveyed to the United States under this Act shall be and remain a part of the Petrified Forest National Monument.
Approved, May 14, 1930.