Chapter 205.
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CHAP. 205.— An act granting to the County of Mariposa, in the State of California, the right of way for a free wagon road or turnpike across the Yosemite National Park, in said State.July 19, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Yosemite Park, Cal. Right of way across, granted to Mariposa County. That there is hereby granted to the County of Mariposa, in the State of California, a right of way, not exceeding one hundred feet in width, on that portion of the Yosemite National Park, in said State, commencing near the southwest corner of said national park as now established and running from thence to the Merced River, thence across same to the western boundary line of the Yosemite Valley grant to a junction with the Coulterville road, for theFree wagon road. purpose of constructing a free wagon road or turnpike leading from the town of Mariposa, in said County and State, to the Yosemite Valley, upon the express condition that the said road shall be completed in fiveCompletion. years from the passage of this act.
Sec. 2. That the United States shall in nowise be liable for any expense,Nonliability of United States. at any time, on account of the building of said free wagon road or turnpike, or for keeping the same in repair, and if the said road should be forfeited or abandoned, or cease to be free of toll, the land covered by the right of way shall revert to the United States if theReversion. 236 land over which it ran is kept for park purposes, or if sold, to the owners of the land through which the road runs, or whose property abuts the same.
Approved, July 19, 1892.