§ 36-10-101 — Authority to acquire state lands; reservation of mineral rights

The United States shall be and is authorized to acquire by
purchase or condemnation or otherwise, any land in this state
required for public buildings, custom houses, arsenals, national
cemeteries, or other purposes essential to the national defense
in necessary use of said land by armed naval, air or land
forces, or land to be physically occupied by the Boysen Dam, its
reservoir, power plant and distribution systems, or lands to be
physically occupied by dams, reservoirs, power plants and
distribution systems in United States reclamation service
projects, and the state of Wyoming hereby consents thereto,
provided that the mineral content of lands so acquired, if
owners thereof so elect, shall be reserved to such owners.