2018 US Code
Title 43 - Public Lands
Chapter 6 - Withdrawal From Settlement, Location, Sale, or Entry
Sec. 153 - Reservation of lands in North Dakota

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Citation 43 U.S.C. § 153 (2018)
Section Name ยง153. Reservation of lands in North Dakota
Section Text

Upon receipt of a proper deed from the State of North Dakota, executed under authority of the act of its legislative assembly, approved February 5, 1915, reconveying to the United States title to section 16, township 138 north, range 81 west, fifth principal meridian, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue patents to said State for such vacant, surveyed, unreserved, unoccupied, nonmineral public lands as may be selected by said State within its boundaries, not exceeding one thousand two hundred and eighty acres in aggregate area, and said section when so reconveyed shall not be subject to settlement, location, entry, or selection under the public land laws, but shall be reserved for the use of the Department of Agriculture in carrying on experiments in dry-land agriculture at the Northern Great Plains Field Station, Mandan, North Dakota.

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(July 3, 1916, ch. 219, 39 Stat. 344.)

Publication Title United States Code, 2018 Edition, Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS
Category Bills and Statutes
Collection United States Code
SuDoc Class Number Y 1.2/5:
Contained Within Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 6 - WITHDRAWAL FROM SETTLEMENT, LOCATION, SALE, OR ENTRY
Sec. 153 - Reservation of lands in North Dakota
Contains section 153
Date 2018
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 14, 2019
Positive Law No
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Statutes at Large References 39 Stat. 344
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