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 SIXTY-FIRST conennss. sms. II. 011154. 1910. 295 CHAP. 154.-An Act Providing that the State of Wyoming be permitted to relin- AP1'1112» 1910- zigish to the United States certain lands heretofore selected and to select other lands [8* 1866*] m the public domain in lieu thereof. [Pubns, No. 12s.] Be it enacted by the Senate and H mise 0% Representatives of the United States of America in, Congress assemblql, hat upon the delivery to the wf,‘j,§‘g’°,;ay er Secretary of the Interior by the State of Wyoming of its properly chance cervninlsnds. " executed and duly recorded deed or deeds reconveying to the United States of America, in fee simple, certain lands heretofore selected by and certified to said State under the rovisions of an Act entitled v°‘·2°· *"‘·m· 22* "An Act to provide for the admission oi) the State of Wyomin into the Union, and for other purposes," approved July tenth, eigiteen hundred and ninety, to wit: All of section thirty-six in township D¤¤<=¤P¤°¤· thirty north, range eighty-tive west; all of sections sixteen and . thirty-six in township twenty-nine north, range eighty-four west; all o section sixjzeen m township twenty-eight north, range eight - four west; all of section thirty-six in townsgiip twenty-eight north range eig1hty—’dve west; all of sections one and twelve, north half and sout west (garter of section thirteen in township twenty-seven north, range eig ty-five west; all of sections seven, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty in township twenty-seven north, range eighty-four west; all of section sixteen in township fifty-two north, range one hundred and three west; southeast quarter of northeast quarter, east half of southeast quarter of section fifteen, south half of north half, southwest guarter, west half of southeast quarter of section fourteen, east hal of northeast quarter, northeast quarter of southeast quarter of section twenty-two, northwest quarter of southwest quarter, northeast ituarter of northwest quarter, west half of northwest quarter, nort west guarter of northeast quarter of section twenty-three, south half o northeast quarter of section thirteen in township fifty-two north, range one hundred and three west; south half of northwest %uarter, north half of southwest quarter of section eighteen in towns ip fifty-two north, range one hundred and two west; northeast quarter of southwest quarter, northwest quarter of southeast quarter of section eleven m township fifty-two °north, · range one hundred and three west; northeast quarter of northeast quarter of section nine in township fifty-two north, range one hundred and three west; and southeast quarter of southeast quarter of section twenty-seven, northwest <}uarter of northeast quarter of section thirty-four in township ii ty-two north, range one hundred' and three west; the land so described having been acquired under the ‘ grant of sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six for the sup ort of common schools; and selected under the grant of two hundred and sixty thousand acres for state charitab e, educational, penal, and reformatory institutions, said selections being approved by the Secretary of the Interior on April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninet -seven, December fourteenth, mneteen hundred, and June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the said State shall be s°‘°°“°”"””‘°· authorized and permitted to select an equal number of acres from the unreserved, non-mineral, unappropriated public lands of the United States in said State in the same manner, for the same pur oses, and subject to the same conditions and limitations under whiclh the lands so reconveyed were selected and held. Sec. 2. That the lands so reconveyed shall be restored to and pulg;{;dg0;i°:1Pg"d *0 become a part of the public domain and be subjkect to disposal by the ` Government in the same manner in which other public lands of a _ like character are disposed of: Promkted, That no portion of the lands §'p‘,Q';,*?°¤;,de,e,,€d_ "so reconveyed shall be subject to settlement, entry, location, or selection under the public land laws of the United States until the Secretary of the Interior shall decide that such lands are not needed ‘ for any public purpose. ., Approved, April 12, 1910.