§153 Reservation of Lands in North Dakota

Summary

If North Dakota gives the United States a proper deed under its law approved February 5, 1915, returning title to section 16, township 138 north, range 81 west, Fifth Principal Meridian, the Secretary of the Interior may give the State patents for up to 1,280 acres of vacant public land in North Dakota that are not reserved for mining. That returned section 16 cannot be claimed or settled under public land laws and must be kept for the Department of Agriculture to run dry‑land farming experiments at the Northern Great Plains Field Station in Mandan.