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16 U.S.C. § 519a — Transfer of forest reservation lands for military purposes
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If any of the lands purchased or to be purchased by the United States under the provisions of the Act approved March 1, 1911, as amended, within the limits of townships 1, 2, and 3 north, ranges 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, in Forest and Perry Counties, State of Mississippi, are determined to be chiefly valuable and necessary for a National Guard encampment and related military purposes, the Secretary of Agriculture may, and he is, authorized to convey full title to said lands to the State of Mississippi or the Department of the Army: Provided, That there is paid into the Treasury of the United States, or made available by transfer on the books of said Treasury, sums of money equal to the full amounts expended by the Department of Agriculture for the purchase of said lands, and the money so paid into or transferred on the books of the Treasury shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary of Agriculture for the purchase of other lands under the provisions of said Act of March 1, 1911, as amended.
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If any of the lands purchased or to be purchased by the United States under the provisions of the Act approved March 1, 1911, as amended, within the limits of townships 1, 2, and 3 north, ranges 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, in Forest and Perry Counties, State of Mississippi, are determined to be chiefly valuable and necessary for a National Guard encampment and related military purposes, the Secretary of Agriculture may, and he is, authorized to convey full title to said lands to the State of Mississippi or the Department of the Army: Provided, That there is paid into the Treasury of the United States, or made available by transfer on the books of said Treasury, sums of money equal to the full amounts expended by the Department of Agriculture for the purchase of said lands, and the money so paid into or transferred on the books of the Treasury shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary of Agriculture for the purchase of other lands under the provisions of said Act of March 1, 1911, as amended.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, acts Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, §§ 4, 5, 36 Stat. 962; Sept. 21, 1950, ch. 966, 64 Stat. 872, provided for creation and membership of National Forest Reservation Commission.
#### Transfer of Functions
Section 17(a)(1) of Pub. L. 94–588 provided in part that all functions of National Forest Reservation Commission are transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture.
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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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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 520
vertence be included in tracts acquired under
this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may, in
his discretion, and he is authorized, upon appli-
cation or otherwise, to examine and ascertain
the location and extent of such areas as in his
opinion may be occupied for agricultural pur-
poses without injury to the forests or to stream
flow and which are not needed for public pur-
poses, 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 ex-
ceeding 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, re-
sources, or use thereof after such lands shall
have been so acquired, shall be initiated or per-
fected, except as in this section provided.
(Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, § 10, 36 Stat. 962; Pub. L.
86–509, § 1(k), June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 205.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
This Act, referred to in text, means act Mar. 1, 1911,
ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961, popularly known as the Weeks Law,
which enacted this section, former sections 513 and 514
of this title, and sections 515 to 518, 521, 552, and 563 of
this title and amended sections 480 and 500 of this title.
For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
Short Title note set out under section 552 of this title
and Tables.
CODIFICATION
‘‘Such rules and regulations as he may prescribe’’ was
substituted for ‘‘such joint rules and regulations as the
Secr
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