Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER XXI — ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK › § 192b–1
If proper proof of ownership is given, the Secretary of the Interior may accept title for the United States to a specific parcel that was conveyed to William W. Kiskadden by warranty deed No. 174403, recorded August 24, 1916, in book 339, page 231, Larimer County, Colorado. That parcel starts at the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of section 31, township 5 north, range 73 west, sixth principal meridian, then goes south 480 feet, west 200 feet, north 27 degrees 30 minutes west 541 feet, and east 450 feet back to the start, and contains approximately 3.58 acres. In return, the Secretary may give an official patent (title) to the United States for another described parcel in the same section. That parcel begins at a point measured from the center quarter‑section corner as south 79 degrees 0 minutes east 360.9 feet, then south 480 feet to a point from which the east quarter corner bears north 79 degrees 22 minutes east 2,673.6 feet, then west 200 feet, north 27 degrees 30 minutes west 541 feet, and east 450 feet to the start, and contains approximately 3.5 acres. All land conveyed to the United States, except the small part to be patented back, will become part of Rocky Mountain National Park and must follow the park’s laws and rules once the title is accepted.
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16 U.S.C. § 192b–1
Title 16, Conservation
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