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erected at Pacific branch of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL

Repeal effective Jan. 1, 1959, see section 2 of Pub. L.

85–857, set out as a note preceding Part I of Title 38,

Veterans’ Benefits.

§ 136. Repealed. Pub. L. 85–56, title XXII,

§ 2202(1), (85), June 17, 1957, 71 Stat. 162, 165

Section, acts June 25, 1910, ch. 384, §§1–11, 36 Stat. 736;

Dec. 26, 1941, ch. 634, 55 Stat. 868, related to disposition

of deceased veterans’ personal property. See section

8520 et seq. of Title 38, Veterans’ Benefits.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL

Repeal effective Jan. 1, 1958, see section 2301 of Pub.

L. 85–56.

§ 137. Repealed. July 3, 1930, ch. 863, § 7, 46 Stat.

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Section, R.S. §4835, related to application of Articles

of War to inmates of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

§§ 138, 139. Repealed. Pub. L. 85–857, § 14(4), (5),

(26), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1269, 1270

Section 138, acts Feb. 26, 1881, ch. 80, §2, 21 Stat. 350;

Aug. 7, 1882, ch. 433, §1, 22 Stat. 322; Aug. 17, 1912, ch.

301, §1, 37 Stat. 312, related to payment of pensions of

inmates of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

Section 139, act July 1, 1902, ch. 1351, §1, 32 Stat. 564,

related to disposition of balance of pension money due

deceased inmates of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF REPEAL

Repeal effective Jan. 1, 1959, see section 2 of Pub. L.

85–857, set out as a note preceding Part I of Title 38,

Veterans’ Benefits.

SUBCHAPTER V—BATTLE MOUNTAIN

SANITARIUM RESERVE

§ 151. Battle Mountain Sanitarium Reserve; establishment; rights to lands, not affected

There are reserved from settlement, entry,

sale, or other disposal all those certain tracts,

pieces, or parcels of land lying and being situated in the State of South Dakota and within

the boundaries particularly described as follows:

Beginning at the southwest corner of section 18,

township 7 south, range 6 east, Black Hills meridian; thence east to the southeast corner of

said section 18; thence south to the southwest

corner of the northwest quarter of section 20;

thence east to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section 21; thence north to the

northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section 9; thence west to the center of section 7;

thence south to the southwest corner of the

southeast quarter of section 7; thence west to

the northwest corner of section 18; thence south

to the place of beginning, all in township 7

south, range 6 east, Black Hills meridian, in Fall

River County, South Dakota: Provided, That

nothing herein contained shall be construed to

affect any valid rights acquired in connection

with any of the lands embraced within the limits of said reserve.

(Mar. 22, 1906, ch. 1127, §1, 34 Stat. 83.)

§ 152. Name; control, rules and regulations

Said reserve shall be known as the Battle

Mountain Sanitarium Reserve, and shall be

under the exclusive control of the Secretary of

Veterans Affairs in connection with the Battle

Mountain Sanitarium at Hot Springs, South Dakota, whose duty it shall be to prescribe such

rules and regulations and establish such service

as the Secretary may consider necessary for the

care and management of the same.

(Mar. 22, 1906, ch. 1127, §2, 34 Stat. 83; Pub. L.

102–54, §13(i)(2), June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 276.)

AMENDMENTS

1991—Pub. L. 102–54 substituted ‘‘Secretary of Veterans Affairs’’ for ‘‘Board of Managers of the National

Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers’’ and ‘‘as the

Secretary may consider necessary’’ for ‘‘as they may

deem necessary’’.

§ 153. Perfecting bona fide claims to lands; exchange of private lands

In all cases of unperfected bona fide claims

lying within the said boundaries of said reserve,

which claims have been properly initiated prior

to September 2, 1902, said claims may be perfected upon compliance with the requirements

of the laws respecting settlement, residence, improvements, and so forth, in the same manner in

all respects as claims are perfected to other

Government lands: Provided, That to the extent

that the lands within said reserve are held in

private ownership the Secretary of the Interior

is authorized in his discretion to exchange

therefor public lands of like area and value,

which are surveyed, vacant, unappropriated, not

mineral, not timbered, and not required for reservoir sites or other public uses or purposes. The

private owners must, at their expense and by appropriate instruments of conveyance, surrender

to the Government a full and unencumbered

right and title to the private lands included in

any exchange before patents are issued for or

any rights attached to the public lands included

therein, and no charge of any kind shall be made

for issuing such patents. Upon completion of any

exchange the land surrendered to the Government shall become a part of said reserve in a

like manner as if they had been public lands at

the time of the establishment of said reserve.

Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to authorize the issuance of any land

scrip, and the State of South Dakota is granted

the privilege of selecting from the public lands

in said State an equal quantity of land in lieu of

such portions of section sixteen included within

said reserve as have not been sold or disposed of

by said State and are not covered by an unperfected bona fide claim as above mentioned.

(Mar. 22, 1906, ch. 1127, §3, 34 Stat. 83.)

§ 154. Unlawful intrusion, or violation of rules

and regulations

All persons who shall unlawfully intrude upon

said reserve, or who shall without permission

appropriate any object therein or commit unauthorized injury or waste in any form whatever

upon the lands or other public property therein,

or who shall violate any of the rules and regula-