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[CITE: 16USC519]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 519. Agricultural lands included in tracts acquired; sale 
        for homesteads
        
    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.

(Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, Sec. 10, 36 Stat. 962; Pub. L. 86-509, 
Sec. 1(k), June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 205.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, means act Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 
Stat. 961, as amended, popularly known as the Weeks Law, which is 
classified to sections 480, 500, 513 to 519, 521, 552, and 563 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 Secretary of Agriculture 
and the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe'' in view of the 
transfer of functions under this section to the Secretary of Agriculture 
from the Secretary of the Interior by section 1(k) of Pub. L. 86-509, 
set out as a note under section 2201 of Title 7, Agriculture.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 521 of this title.
