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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§93 Grant of prior lands to Northern Pacific Railroad; lieu lands to settlers

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XI— - MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK › § 93

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

After the Northern Pacific Railroad files deeds with the Interior Secretary giving up the lands it was granted in Mount Rainier National Park and in the Pacific National Forest that lie next to its railroad, the company may pick an equal amount of nonmineral public land elsewhere. The replacement land must be classed nonmineral when surveyed, not reserved, and free of claims. People living on the park land may give up their rights and accept other public land under the same rules used for national-forest and national-park exchanges.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §93

Conservation — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Upon execution and filing with the Secretary of the Interior, by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, of proper deed releasing and conveying to the United States the lands in Mount Rainier National Park, also the lands in the Pacific National Forest which have been heretofore granted by the United States to said company, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, and which lie opposite said company’s constructed road, said company is authorized to select an equal quantity of nonmineral public lands, so classified as nonmineral at the time of actual Government survey, which has been or shall be made, of the United States not reserved and to which no adverse right or claim shall have attached or have been initiated at the time of the making of such selection, lying within any State into or through which the railroad of said Northern Pacific Railroad Company runs, to the extent of the lands so relinquished and released to the United States. Any settlers on lands in said national park may relinquish their rights thereto and take other public lands in lieu thereof, to the same extent and under the same limitations and conditions as are provided by law for national forests and national parks.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification “Pacific National Forest” and “national forests” substituted in text for “Pacific Forest Reserve” and “forest reserves”, respectively, on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

16 U.S.C. § 93

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73