16 U.S.C. § 93 : US Code - Section 93: Grant of prior lands to Northern Pacific Railroad; lieu lands to settlers

Search 16 U.S.C. § 93 : US Code - Section 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.