43 U.S.C. § 153 — Reservation of lands in North Dakota

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This law lets North Dakota trade a piece of land back to the federal government. Once the state properly deeds over section 16 near Mandan, the Secretary of the Interior can give North Dakota other public land in exchange, up to 1,280 acres total. The section 16 land then becomes reserved for the Department of Agriculture's dry-land farming experiments at the Northern Great Plains Field Station.

Once North Dakota sends the Secretary of the Interior a proper deed reconveying section 16, township 138 north, range 81 west, fifth principal meridian — a deed made under the state's February 5, 1915 law — the Secretary may issue North Dakota patents (land grants) for other public land the state picks within its borders. That other land must be vacant, surveyed, unreserved, unoccupied, and free of minerals, and the total cannot exceed 1,280 acres. Once section 16 is reconveyed this way, no one can settle it, locate a claim on it, file an entry on it, or select it under the public land laws. Instead, it becomes reserved for the Department of Agriculture, to run dry-land agriculture experiments at the Northern Great Plains Field Station in Mandan, North Dakota.

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Upon receipt of a proper deed from the State of North Dakota, executed under authority of the act of its legislative assembly, approved February 5, 1915, reconveying to the United States title to section 16, township 138 north, range 81 west, fifth principal meridian, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue patents to said State for such vacant, surveyed, unreserved, unoccupied, nonmineral public lands as may be selected by said State within its boundaries, not exceeding one thousand two hundred and eighty acres in aggregate area, and said section when so reconveyed shall not be subject to settlement, location, entry, or selection under the public land laws, but shall be reserved for the use of the Department of Agriculture in carrying on experiments in dry-land agriculture at the Northern Great Plains Field Station, Mandan, North Dakota.

Source credit: (July 3, 1916, ch. 219, 39 Stat. 344.)

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1916Enacted · Act of July 3, 1916, ch. 219 · 39 Stat. 344

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