Chapter 547. To exclude from the Yosemite National Park, California, certain lands therein described, and to attach and include the said lands in the Sierra Forest Reserve
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CHAP. 547.— An Act To exclude from the Yosemite National Park, California, certain lands therein described, and to attach and include the said lands in the Sierra Forest Reserve. February 7, 1905. [[H. R. 17345](/us/bill/58/hr/17345).] [[Public, No. 49](/us/pl/58/49).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Yosemite National Park, Cal. Part of, attached to Sierra Forest Reserve. New boundaries. That the tracts of land in the State of California known and described as follows:
Beginning at the point where the middle of the channel of the South Fork of the Merced River intersects the line between sections three and four, township four south, range twenty east, Mount Diablo base and meridian; thence northerly along section lines through the middle of townships three and four south, range twenty east, to the northwest corner of section three, township three south, range twenty east; thence westerly along township line to the southwest corner of section thirty-three, township two south, range twenty east; thence northerly along section lines to the northwest corner of section twenty-one, said township; thence westerly along section lines to the southwest corner of section eighteen, said township; thence southerly along range line to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section twenty-four, township two south, range nineteen east; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the northeast quarter of section twenty-four, said township; thence southerly to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of section twenty-four, said township; thence westerly along section lines to the southwest corner of section twenty-three, said township; thence northerly along section lines to the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section fourteen, said township; thence easterly to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section fourteen, said township; thence northerly along section line to the northwest corner of section thirteen, said township; thence easterly along section line to the northeast corner of section thirteen, said township; thence northerly along range line to the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section seven, township two south, range twenty east; thence easterly to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section seven, said township; thence southerly along section line to the northwest corner of section seventeen, said township; thence easterly along section lines to the northeast corner of section sixteen, said township; thence northerly along section lines to the northwest corner of section three, said township; thence westerly along township line to the southwest corner of section thirty-three, township one south, range twenty east; thence northerly along section lines to the northwest corner of section twenty-one, said township; thence westerly along section lines to the southwest corner of section eighteen, said township; thence northerly along range line to the northwest corner of section six, said township; thence westerly along Mount Diablo base line to the southwest corner of section thirty-four, township one north, range nineteen east; thence northerly along section lines through the middle of townships one and two north, range nineteen east, to the point of intersection with the summit of the divide between Cherry Creek on the west and Eleanor and Fall creeks on the east; thence along the summit of 703 said divide in a northeasterly direction to the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains; thence southeasterly along the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the divide between the Merced and San Joaquin rivers; thence southwesterly along said divide to the point of intersection with the south boundary of township four south, range twenty-three east, Mount Diablo base and meridian; thence westerly along township line to the point of intersection with the middle of the channel of the South Fork of the Merced River; thence westerly down the middle of said river to the place of beginning, are hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and set apart as reserved forest lands, subject to all the provisions of the Act of Congress approved October first, eighteen Vol. 26, p. 650. hundred and ninety, entitled “An Act to set apart certain tracts of land in the State of California as forest reservations:” *Provided*, That *Provisos*.
Remainder made part of Sierra Forest Reserve. all those tracts or parcels of land described in section one of the said Act of October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, and not included within the metes and bounds of the land above described, be, and the same are hereby, included in and made part of the Sierra Forest Reserve: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior Rights of way. may require the payment of such price as he may deem proper for privileges on the land herein segregated from the Yosemite National Park and made a part of the Sierra Forest Reserve accorded under the Act approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, relating Vol. 31, p. 790. to rights of way over certain parks, reservations, and other lands, and other acts concerning rights of way over public lands; and the moneys Receipts used to improve, etc., Yosemite National Park. received from the privileges accorded on the lands herein segregated and included in the Sierra Forest Reserve shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, to be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in the management, improvement, and protection of the forest lands herein set aside and reserved, which shall hereafter be known as the “Yosemite National Park.
” Sec. 2. That none of the lands patented and in private ownership in Private lands in, subject to forest reserve laws, etc. the area hereby included in the Sierra Forest Reserve shall have the privileges of the lieu-land scrip provisions of the land laws, but otherwise to be in all respects under the laws and regulations affecting the forest reserves, and immediately upon the passage of this Act all laws, rules, and regulations affecting forest reservations, including the right to change the boundaries thereof by Executive proclamation, shall take effect and be in force within the limits of the territory excluded by this Act from the Yosemite National Park, except as herein otherwise provided.
Sec. 3. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after Effect. its passage. Approved, February 7, 1905.