16 U.S.C. § 145 (2024)
This is the official text of 16 U.S.C. § 145 (2024), part of Federal (US Code)’s United States Code — the codified general and permanent federal statutes of the United States, organized into more than 50 numbered titles by subject.
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Exchange of lands
Official statutory text
In cases in which a tract covered by an unperfected bona fide claim or by a patent is included within the limits of this park, the settler or owner thereof may, if he desires to do so, relinquish the tract to the Government and secure other land, outside of the park, in accordance with the provisions of the law relating to the subject of such relinquishment of lands in national forests in the State of South Dakota.
(Jan. 9, 1903, ch. 63, §5, 32 Stat. 766.)
(Jan. 9, 1903, ch. 63, §5, 32 Stat. 766.)
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