# § 519a. Transfer of forest reservation lands for military purposes
March 1, 1911*Provided*March 1, 1911
If any of the lands purchased or to be purchased by the United States under the provisions of the Act approved , as amended, within the limits of townships 1, 2, and 3 north, ranges 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, in Forest and Perry Counties, State of Mississippi, are determined to be chiefly valuable and necessary for a National Guard encampment and related military purposes, the Secretary of Agriculture may, and he is, authorized to convey full title to said lands to the State of Mississippi or the Department of the Army: , That there is paid into the Treasury of the United States, or made available by transfer on the books of said Treasury, sums of money equal to the full amounts expended by the Department of Agriculture for the purchase of said lands, and the money so paid into or transferred on the books of the Treasury shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary of Agriculture for the purchase of other lands under the provisions of said Act of , as amended.
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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 2, 1935, ch. 21, 49 Stat. 37; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)
## Editorial Notes
### References in Text
Act approved , as amended, referred to in text, is , , popularly known as the Weeks Law, which enacted former sections 513 and 514 and sections 515 to 519, 521, 552, and 563 of this title and amended sections 480 and 500 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under and Tables.
### Codification
The words “with the consent and approval of the National Forest Reservation Commission established by section 4 of said Act of []”, which appeared immediately following the first reference to the Secretary of Agriculture, have been omitted as obsolete. Section 4 of the 1911 Act was repealed, and all functions of the National Forest Reservation Commission were transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture, by , , .
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of , . Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of , . Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued military Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.