Chapter 820. Reserving from the public lands in the State of Oregon, as a public park for the benefit of the people of the United States, and for the protection and preservation of the game, fish, timber, and all other natural objects therein, a tract of land herein described, and so forth
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CHAP. 820.— An Act Reserving from the public lands in the State of Oregon, as a public park for the benefit of the people of the United States, and for the protection and preservation of the game, fish, timber, and all other natural objects therein, a tract of land herein described, and so forth. May 22, 1902.[[Public, No. 121](/us/pl/32/121).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Crater Lake National Park, Oreg., established.Boundaries.
That the tract of land bounded north by the parallel forty-three degree.« four minutes north latitude, south by forty-two degrees forty-eight minutes north latitude, east by the meridian one hundred and twenty-two degrees west longitude, and west by the meridian one hundred and twenty-two degrees sixteen minutes west longitude, having an area of two hundred and forty-nine square miles, in the State of Oregon, and including Crater Lake, is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart for-ever as a public park or pleasure ground for the benefit of the people of the United States, to be known as Crater Lake National Park.
Sec. 2. Regulations, etc., by Secretary of Interior.That the reservation established by this Act shall be under the control and custody of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty 203it shall be to establish rules and regulations and cause adequate measures to be taken for the preservation of the natural objects within said Sark, and also for the protection of the timber from wanton depredation, the preservation of all kinds of game and fish, the punishment of trespassers, the removal of unlawful occupants and intruders, and the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires.
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person to establish anySettlement in, etc., prohibited. settlement or residence within said reserve, or to engage in any lumbering or other enterprise or business occupation therein, or to enter therein for any speculative purpose whatever, and any person violating the provisionsPenalties. of this Act, or the rules and regulations established thereunder, shall be punished by a line of not more than live hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, and shall further be liable for all destruction of timber or other property of the United States in consequence of any such unlawful act: *Provided,*That said reservation*Provisos.*Admission of visitors, etc. shall be open, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to all scientists, excursionists, and pleasure seekers and to the location of mining claims and the working of the same: *And provided further.* That restaurant and hotel keepers, uponHotels, etc., permitted. application to the Secretary of the Interior, may be permitted by him to establish places of entertainment within the Crater Lake National Park for the accommodation of visitors, at places and under regulations fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and not otherwise.
Approved, May 22, 1902.