16 U.S.C. § 444a — Ascertainment of value of lands offered for exchange; evidence of title

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This law tells how to value land traded for Petrified Forest National Monument. Landowners must prove they own the private land before any trade happens. Land the government gets this way becomes part of the monument.

The Secretary of the Interior decides how to figure the value of two things: the privately owned, patented land inside the monument that's being offered for trade, and the public land being offered back in exchange. The Secretary sets the method for this. Before any trade can go through, the private landowner must give the Secretary evidence -- satisfactory to the Secretary -- proving they actually own the patented land they're offering. Any land the United States gets this way, under section 444 of this title, becomes and stays part of the Petrified Forest National Monument.

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The value of all patented lands within said monument offered for exchange, and the value of the lands of the United States to be given in exchange therefor, shall be ascertained in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct; and the owners of such privately owned lands within said monument shall, before any exchange is effective, furnish the Secretary of the Interior evidence satisfactory to him of title to the patented lands offered in exchange; and lands conveyed to the United States under section 444 of this title shall be and remain a part of the Petrified Forest National Monument.

Source credit: (May 14, 1930, ch. 271, § 2, 46 Stat. 278.)

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1930Enacted · Act of May 14, 1930, ch. 271 · 46 Stat. 278

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