§153 Reservation of lands in North Dakota

Summary

When the United States receives a valid deed from North Dakota made under the state's law approved February 5, 1915, that returns title to section 16, township 138 north, range 81 west, fifth principal meridian, the Secretary of the Interior may give North Dakota official land titles for other public lands inside the state. Those lands must be vacant, surveyed, unreserved, unoccupied, and nonmineral, and the total may not exceed 1,280 acres. The returned section may not be used for settlement or other claims under the public land laws. It must be held for the Department of Agriculture to run dry‑land farming experiments at the Northern Great Plains Field Station in Mandan, North Dakota.