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[CITE: 43USC153]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
     CHAPTER 6--WITHDRAWAL FROM SETTLEMENT, LOCATION, SALE, OR ENTRY
 
Sec. 153. Reservation of lands in North Dakota

    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.

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

                       References in Text

    The public land laws, referred to in text, are classified generally 
to this title.
