§ 153. — Reservation of lands in North Dakota.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC153]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 6--WITHDRAWAL FROM SETTLEMENT, LOCATION, SALE, OR ENTRY
Sec. 153. Reservation of lands in North Dakota
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.
(July 3, 1916, ch. 219, 39 Stat. 344.)
References in Text
The public land laws, referred to in text, are classified generally
to this title.
