100 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Commission at the price or prices fixed by said commission : Provided^ 

 That no deed or other instrument of conveyance shall be accepted 

 or approved by the Secretary of Agriculture under this Act 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 navigability of navigable streams. 



Act March 1, 1911, c. 18G, s. 7, 36 Stat. 9G2. 

 Title to lands acquired. 



Sec. 8. That the Secretary of Agriculture may do all things neces- 

 sary 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 

 and shall be vested in the United States. 



Act March 1, 1911, c. 1S6, s. 8, 36 Stat. 962. 



Reservation to ov/ner of lands acquired of minerals or timber; regulations for 

 removal thereof to he expressed in conveyance. 



Sec. 9. That such acquisition may in any case be conditioned upon 

 the exception and reservation to the owner from whom title passes 

 to the United States of the minerals and of the merchantable timber, 

 or either or any jDart of them, within or upon such lands at the date 

 of the conveyance, but in every case such exception and reservation 

 and the time within which such timber shall be removed and the rules 

 and regulations under which the cutting and removal of such timber 

 and the mining and removal of such minerals shall be done shall be 

 expressed in the written instrument of conveyance, and thereafter 

 the mining, cutting, and removal of the minerals and timber so ex- 

 cepted and reserved shall be done only under and in obedience to the 

 rules and regulations so expressed. 



Act March 1, 1911, c. 186, s. 9, 36 Stat. 962. 



Agrricultural lands included in tracts acquired; sale as homesteads; jurisdic- 

 tion of lands sold to revert to State; no rights, etc., to lands acquired, 

 waters thereon, etc., except as provided in this section. 



Sec. 10. That 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 Secretarj'^ of Agi'iculture ma}^ in his 

 discretion, and he is hereby 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 

 purpo.ses, and may list and describe the same bj'^ 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 joint rules and regulations as the Secretary 

 of Agriculture and the Secretar^^ of the Interior may prescribe: and 

 in case of such sale the jurisdiction over the lands sold shall, ipso 

 facto, revert to the State in wliich 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. 



Act March 1. 1911, c. 186, s. 10, 36 Stat. 962. 



