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16 U.S.C. § 517 — Title to lands to be acquired
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The Secretary of Agriculture may do all things necessary to secure the safe title in the United States to the lands to be acquired under this Act, but no payment shall be made for any such lands until the title shall be satisfactory to the Attorney General or his designee and shall be vested in the United States.
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The Secretary of Agriculture may do all things necessary to secure the safe title in the United States to the lands to be acquired under this Act, but no payment shall be made for any such lands until the title shall be satisfactory to the Attorney General or his designee and shall be vested in the United States.
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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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In condemnation proceedings, heretofore or hereafter prosecuted, for the acquisition of lands under this Act, in which a decree is entered vesting title thereto in the United States upon payment of the award into the registry of the court, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make such payment when advised by the Attorney General that the proceedings and the decree are regular.
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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
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