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16 U.S.C. § 519 — Agricultural lands included in tracts acquired; sale for homesteads
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Inasmuch as small areas of land chiefly valuable for agriculture may of necessity or by inadvertence be included in tracts acquired under this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, and he is authorized, upon application or otherwise, to examine and ascertain the location and extent of such areas as in his opinion may be occupied for agricultural purposes without injury to the forests or to stream flow and which are not needed for public purposes, and may list and describe the same by metes and bounds, or otherwise, and offer them for sale as homesteads at their true value, to be fixed by him, to actual settlers, in tracts not exceeding eighty acres, in area, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe; and in case of such sale the jurisdiction over the lands sold shall, ipso facto, revert to the State in which the lands sold lie. And no right, title, interest, or claim in or to any lands acquired under this Act, or the waters thereon, or the products, resources, or use thereof after such lands shall have been so acquired, shall be initiated or perfected, except as in this section provided.
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Inasmuch as small areas of land chiefly valuable for agriculture may of necessity or by inadvertence be included in tracts acquired under this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, and he is authorized, upon application or otherwise, to examine and ascertain the location and extent of such areas as in his opinion may be occupied for agricultural purposes without injury to the forests or to stream flow and which are not needed for public purposes, and may list and describe the same by metes and bounds, or otherwise, and offer them for sale as homesteads at their true value, to be fixed by him, to actual settlers, in tracts not exceeding eighty acres, in area, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe; and in case of such sale the jurisdiction over the lands sold shall, ipso facto, revert to the State in which the lands sold lie. And no right, title, interest, or claim in or to any lands acquired under this Act, or the waters thereon, or the products, resources, or use thereof after such lands shall have been so acquired, shall be initiated or perfected, except as in this section provided.
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Consent of the Congress of the United States is given to each of the several States of the Union to enter into any agreement or compact, not in conflict with any law of the United States, with any other State or States for the purpose of conserving the forests and the water supply of the States entering into such agreement or compact.
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There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, rural development, aquaculture, and human nutrition, in the most general and comprehensive sense of those terms, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
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Subject to the provisions of [section 519 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section519&num=0&edition=prelim) the lands acquired under this Act shall be permanently reserved, held, and administered as national forest lands under the provisions of section 471 11 See References in Text note below. of this title and acts supplemental to and amendatory thereof. And the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time divide the lands acquired under this Act into such specific national forests and so designate the same as he may deem best for administrative purposes.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 517
poses of this Act, and in exchange therefor to convey
by deed not to exceed an equal value of such national
forest land in the same State, or he may authorize the
grantor to cut and remove an equal value of timber
within such national forests in the same State, the val-
ues in each case to be determined by him: Provided,
That before’’ for ‘‘The Secretary of Agriculture is au-
thorized to purchase, in the name of the United States,
such lands as have been approved for purchase by the
National Forest Reservation Commission at the price
or prices fixed by said commission. No deed or other in-
strument of conveyance shall be accepted or approved
by the Secretary of Agriculture under this section until
the legislature of the State in which the land lies shall
have consented to the acquisition of such land by the
United States for the purpose of preserving the naviga-
bility of navigable streams. With the approval of the
National Forest Reservation Commission as provided
by this section and section 515 of this title, and when
the public interests will be benefited thereby, the Sec-
retary of Agriculture is authorized, in his discretion, to
accept on behalf of the United States title to any lands
within the exterior boundaries of national forests ac-
quired under said sections which, in his opinion, are
chiefly valuable for the purposes as therein stated, and
in exchange therefor to convey by deed not to exceed
an equal value of such national forest land in the same
State, or he may authorize the grantor to cut and re-
move an equal value of timber within such national for-
ests in the same State, the values in each case to be de-
termined by him. Before’’.
1925—Act Mar. 3, 1925, inserted provisions covering
the excha
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