§ 93. — Grant of prior lands to Northern Pacific Railroad; lieu lands to settlers.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC93]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XI--MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 93. Grant of prior lands to Northern Pacific Railroad; lieu
lands to settlers
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.
(Mar. 2, 1899, ch. 377, Sec. 3, 30 Stat. 994.)
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.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 92, 108, 110c of this title.
