Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102
§153 Reservation of Lands in North Dakota
Title 43 › CHAPTER 6 — WITHDRAWAL FROM SETTLEMENT, LOCATION, SALE, OR ENTRY › § 153
Summary
If North Dakota returns a proper deed for section 16 (T138N, R81W, 5th PM) under its February 5, 1915 act, the Secretary may give the State up to 1,280 acres. That section must be reserved for USDA dryland experiments at Northern Great Plains Field Station, Mandan, not subject to public land claims.
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Title 43, §153
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Upon receipt of a proper deed from the State of North Dakota, executed under authority of the act of its legislative assembly, approved February 5, 1915, reconveying to the United States title to section 16, township 138 north, range 81 west, fifth principal meridian, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to issue patents to said State for such vacant, surveyed, unreserved, unoccupied, nonmineral public lands as may be selected by said State within its boundaries, not exceeding one thousand two hundred and eighty acres in aggregate area, and said section when so reconveyed shall not be subject to settlement, location, entry, or selection under the public land laws, but shall be reserved for the use of the Department of Agriculture in carrying on experiments in dry-land agriculture at the Northern Great Plains Field Station, Mandan, North Dakota.
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43 U.S.C. § 153
Title 43, Public Lands
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102