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SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 332-334. 1924. 643 approval of the Attorney General appoint one deputy at each of the cities of Las Cruces, Silver City, Raton, and the town of Las Vegas: Provided, That upon completion of the Federal building in the city gt°J}¤i°°ia La vm: of Las Vegas, the court shall be transferred to and held in the city of g§},,°,§$f_},‘°,,§8*‘{” °' F°"‘ Las Vegas instead of the town of Las Vegas and court at the latter place discontinued. Approved, Jime 7, 1924. CHAP. 333.-An Act Providing for the actziuirement by the United States Jli1§?g52%M' of privately owned lands within Rio Arriba an Taos Counties, New Mexico, known as the Las Trarnpas grant, by exchanging therefor timber, within the exterior boundaries of any national forest situated within the State of New Mexico. Be it enacted by the Senate and House eaf Re eserztatioes cj the _ United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary §,”{€§§?lQ§‘§?é Las of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized in his discretion to fggfvg accept on behalf of the United States title to all or any part of sor piirposlas or. privately owned lands, situated within the Las Trampas tgrant, ocated within the counties of Rio Arriba and Taos, State o New Mexico, if in the 0 inion of the Secretary of Agriculture apublic interests will be benehted thereb , and the lands are chiefly v uable _ for national forest purposes, andy in exchange therefor the Secretary b,,I,TI°*§,,§°‘°‘,§ EZ of Agriculture may authorize the grantor to cut and remove an °¤¤¤8¤- equa value of timber within the national forests of the same State; the values in each case to be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture and accepfable to the grantor as a fair compensation. Timber given in exc ange shall be cut and removed imder the ,,f§l’§§{,'“*°,,,{,,,§’,{,,°“,§*; laws and regulations relating to the national forests, and under the timberdirection and supervision and in accordance with the requirements of the Secretary of Agriculture. _ _ _ SEO. 2. That lands offered for exchange hereunder and not m;§§§,§QfQ§_“"°“ °* covered by public land surveys shall be identified by metes and bounds surveys and that such surveys and the lats and field notes thereof shall be made by em loyees of the Uiiiited States Forest Service and approved by the Uliited States Surveyor General. SEQ. 3. That any lands conveyed to the United States under the w§‘,”§;'@,§n§,°'§0$Q,€“‘ provisions of this Act shall, upon acclelptance of the coveyance thereof, become and be a part of Carson ational Forest. SEO. 4. That before any exchan e of lands for timber as above p0@,,‘f,"§,§f,%f" ""°' provided is effected, notice of such exchange proposal, describing the lands involved therein, shall be published once each week for four consecutive weeks in some newspa er of general circulation in the county in which such lands so to he conveyed to the United States are situated. Approved, June 7, 1924. QHAP. 334.-An Act Granting certain public lands to the city of Phoenix, A¤Z0lm, for municipal, park, and other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and H owe of Representatives _ vg the United States of America in Congress assembled, That g'§l§l,§‘§.{'§‘;"";&h°,,;, t 8 _ south half of the north half and all the south half of ‘°* *¤°¤*•*¥’°*· section 13, the southwest quarter, the west half of the southeast iismpmnl quarter, the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter, section 14, the southeast quarter, section 21 the east half of the northwest quarter, the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter, the east half of the northeast quarter, the southwest quarter of the north-