Chapter 317. To eliminate certain land from the Tusayan National Forest, Arizona, as an addition to the Western Navajo Indian Reservation
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CHAP. 317.— An Act To eliminate certain land from the Tusayan National Forest, Arizona, as an addition to the Western Navajo Indian Reservation. May 23, 1930.[[S. 3585](/us/bill/71/s/3585).][[Public, No. 250](/us/pl/71/250).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Tusayan National Forest, Ariz.Lands eliminated from, added to Western Navajo Indian Reservation.*Post*, p. 1204.Description. That the following-described land be, and the same is hereby, eliminated from the Tusayan National Forest, Arizona, and added to and made a part of the Western Navajo Indian Reservation subject to all valid rights and claims of individuals initiated prior to the approval of this Act:
All that part of the Tusayan National Forest lying east of the Colorado River and north of the Little Colorado River, unsurveyed, but which will probably be when surveyed in townships 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36 north, ranges 5 and 6 east; all lands in township 31 north, range 6 east, which are now a part of the Tusavan National Forest; sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 10 to 14, inclusive, east half section 23, sections 24 and 25, east half section 26 and sections 35 and 36, township 30 north, range 6 east; sections 27 to 34, inclusive, township 30 north, range 7 east; sections 1, 2, and 11 to 14, inclusive, sections 23 to 26, inclusive, sections 35 and 36, township 29 north, range 6 east; sections 3 to 10, inclusive, and sections 15 to 36, inclusive, township 29 north, range 7 east; section 1 and north half section 12, township 28 north, range 6 east; sections 1 to 23, inclusive, and sections 29 to 32, inclusive, township 28 north, range 7 *Proviso*.Other designated lands added.east;
Gila and Salt River base and meridian, Arizona: *Provided*, That all unappropriated and unreserved public lands in sections 24 to 28, inclusive, and sections 33 to 36, inclusive, in township 28 north, range 7 east, Gila and Salt River base and meridian, Arizona, be, and the same are hereby, added to and made a part of the Western Navajo Indian Reservation, subject to all valid rights and claims of individuals initiated prior to approval of this Act. Sec. 2. Owners of conveyed lands to select other public lands in exchange.
That upon conveyance to the United States of a good and sufficient title to any privately owned land within the areas described in this Act, the owners or their assigns thereof are hereby authorized under regulations of the Secretary of the Interior, to select at any time within fifteen years after the approval of this Act, from the surveyed, unappropriated, unreserved, nonmineral public lands of the United States, in the State of Arizona, lands approximately equal in value to the lands thus conveyed, such values to be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of the Patents to issue.Interior is hereby authorized to issue patents for the lands thus *Proviso*.To become part of Reservation.selected: *Provided*, That the lands conveyed to the United States under authority of this Act shall thereupon become a part of the Western Navajo Indian Reservation.
Sec. 3. Public notice of exchange to be advertised. That before any exchange of lands as above provided is effected, notice of such exchange describing the lands involved therein shall be published once each week for four consecutive weeks 379in some newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties within which the selected lands are situated. Sec. 4. That the State of Arizona shall have the right to selectArizona may select other lands in lien of school lands within the addition.Vol. 39, p. 572. other public lands in lieu of sections 2, 16, 32, and 36 within said addition to the Western Navajo Indian Reservation, in the same manner as is provided in the Enabling Act of June 20, 1910 [(36 Stat.
L. 557)]. Approved, May 23, 1930.