43 U.S.C. § 153 : US Code - Section 153: Reservation of lands in North Dakota

Search 43 U.S.C. § 153 : US Code - Section 153: Reservation of lands in North Dakota

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.