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PUBLIC LAW 88-35-MAY 29, 1963

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Public Law 88-35 AN ACT To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain public lands in the State of Nevada to the county of Lincoln, State <)f Nevada.

May 29, 1.963 [s^_87;!]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreHentatireH of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Secretary uncoin county, Nev. of the Interior shall issue to the county of Lincoln, State of Nevada, ^' upon the payment of the purchase price by the county into the Treasury C o n v e y a n c e. of the United States, not more than five years after the Secretary has notified the county of such price, which shall be an amount equal to the fair market value plus the cost of any appraisal of the lands as of the effective date of this Act as determined by the Secretary after the appraisal of the lands by contract appraisal or otherwise, a patent for the following-described lands, situated in the State of Nevada and comprising approximately 2,844 acres (all range references are to the Mount Diablo base and meridian): The northwest quarter, west half of southwest quarter section 2; all section 3; north half, southwest quarter, west half of southeast quarter, northeast quarter of southeast quarter section 10: southeast quarter of northeast quarter, northwest quarter of northwest quarter, southeast quarter section 11; all section 14; north half, southwest quarter, northeast quarter of southeast quarter of northwest quarter of southeast quarter, southeast quarter of southeast quarter section 15, all in township 3 south, range 67 east. Mount Diablo meridian, Nevada. SEC. 2. The conveyance authorized by this Act shall be made subject to any existing valid claims against the lands described in the first section of this Act, and to any reservations necessary to protect continuing uses of those lands by the United States. SEC. 3. Nothing contamed in the preceding provisions of this Act shall be construed to preclude the county of Lincoln, State of Nevada, from purchasing, in accordance with such preceding provisions, only such portion or portions, by legal subdivision of the public land surveys, of the above-described lands as such county elects, nor shall the purchase by such county of only a portion or portions of such lands be construed to constitute a w-aiver or relinquishment of any of its rights under this Act to purchase, in accordance \\\t\\ such preceding provisions and by legal subdivisions of the public land surveys, the remainder of such lands, or any portion thereof. SEC. 4. All moneys received from the conveyance of lands under the terms of this Act shall be disposed of in the same manner as moneys received from the sale of public lands, except that moneys received as reimbursement for costs of appraisal, surveys, and extinguishing adverse claims may be used by the Secretary for said purposes without appropriation. SEC. 5. The lands described in section 1 of this Act shall be segregated from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws, from the date of approval of this xlct until the Secretary shall provide otherwise by publication of an order in the Federal Register. publication in SEC. 6. This Act shall not preclude the county of Lincoln from ^' ^* acquiring title or leases to any lands described in this Act for public or recreational purposes under the Act of June 14, 1926 (44 Stat. 741), as amended (43 U. S. C 869, et seq.). es Stat. 173. SEC. 7. Any patent issued under this Act shall contain a reservation to the United States of any of the following named minerals for which the land is deemed valuable or prospectively valuable: coal, native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by

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