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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss. I. CHs. 532-534 . 1928 . Existing rights affected. May 12, 1928. [S . 3824.1 1Public, No. 374 .] Bryce Canyon Na- tional Park, Utah . Vol. 43, p. 593, amended . New area described . Description modified of lands from Powell National Forest . Ante, p . 147, amend- ed. Corr ect ed de scr ip- tion. May 12, 1928. [ii. J . Res. 200.1 [Pub . Res. No. 42.] Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge . Vol. 43, p. 650. Vol . 43, p. 1354, amended . Purchase of land, etc . Provisos . Pu rchase price in- creased. the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to determine the facts and to declare such forfeiture and such reversion and to restore said lands to the public domain : Provided, not That this grant shall not include any land which on the date of the approval of the Act is covered by any existing bona fide right or claim under the laws of the United States, unless and until such right or claim is relinquished or extinguished . Approved, May 12, 1928 . CHAP. 533 .-An Act To correct the descriptions of land comprising the Bryce Canyon National Park as contained in the Act approved June 7, 1924, entitled "An Act to establish the Utah National Park in the State of Utah," and the Act approved February 25, 1928, entitled "An Act to change the name of the Utah Na tional Park, the est ablishment of which is provided for by t he Act of Congress approved June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 593), to the 'Bryce Canyon National Park,' and for other purposes ." Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives of the Uni ted S tates of Am erica in Congress assembled, That the tract of land described in section 1 of the Act approved June 7, 1924, entitled "An Act to establish the Utah National Park in the State of Utah," be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows : "Unsurveyed sections 31 and 32, township 36 south, range 3 west ; surveyed section 36, township 36 south, range 4 west ; north half, southwest quarter and west half of the southeast quarter of partially surveyed section 5 ; unsurveyed sections 6 and 7, west half, west half of the northeast quarter, and west half of the southeast quarter of partially surveyed section 8, partially surveyed section 17, and unsur- veyed section 18, township 37 south, range 3 west ; and unsurveyed sections 1, 12, and 13, township 37 south, range 4, all west of the Salt Lake meridian in the State of Utah ." SEC. 2. That the tract of land described in section 2 of the Act approved February 25, 1928, entitled "An Act to change the name of the Utah National Park, the establishment of which is provided for by the Act of Congress approved June 7, 1924 (Forty-third Statutes, page 593), to the 'Bryce Canyon National Park,' and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows "The east half east half section 25, t ownshi p 3 6 south, range 4 we st ; t he east half and southwest quarter secti on 20 , and all of sections 21, 29, and 30, township 36 south, range 3 west ; all of sections 24 and 25, towns hip 37 south, range 4 west ; and all of sections 19 and 30, township 37 south, range 3 west, Salt Lake meridi an . " Approved, May 12, 1928 . CHAP. 534.-Joint Resolution To amend section 10 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish the upper Mississip pi River wild life an d fish refuge," approved June 7, 1924. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sec tion 10 of the Act entitled "An Act to e stablish the u pper Mississi ppi River wild life and fish refuge," approved June 7, 1924 (F orty -thi rd Statutes at Large, page 65 0), as amended by joint resolution of March 4, 1925 (Forty-third Statutes at Large, page 1354), be, and the same is hereby amended by substituting in lieu of the proviso therein contained the following : "Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall not pay for any land or land and water a price which shall exceed an average cost of $10 per acre : Provided further,