Section 12
SEC. 12. Section sixty of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 60. If, upon receipt of applications for the lease or purchase of any of the lands covered by this chapter, it shall be decided that the lots or blocks so applied for are suited to the purposes for which they are requested and are not needed for public purposes, the Director of Lands shall ask the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources for authority to dispose of the same. Upon receipt of such authority, the Director of Lands shall give notice by public advertisement in the same manner as in the case of leases or sales of agricultural public land, that such applications have been made and that the Government will lease or sell, as the case may be, the lots or blocks specified in the advertisement, for the purpose contemplated in the application and subject to the conditions specified in this chapter."