Chapter 58. To amend section one of an Act of Congress approved April ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page eighty), entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to secure for the United States title to patented lands in the Yosemite National Park, and for other purpos
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CHAP. 58.— An Act To amend section one of an Act of Congress approved April ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page eighty), entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to secure for the United States title to patented lands in the Yosemite National Park, and for other purposes.” April 16, 1914.[[S. 4943](/us/bill/63/s/4943).][[Public, No. 85](/us/pl/63/85).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section one of an ActYosemite National Park.
Cal.Vol. 37, p. 80, amended. of Congress approved April ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page eighty), entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to secure for the United States title to patented lands in the Yosemite National Park, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:" “Section 1. That the Secretaries of the Departments of InteriorExchange of timber, etc., for acquiring private lands. and Agriculture, for the purpose of eliminating private holdings within the Yosemite National Park and to preserve intact timber along and adjoining the roads in the scenic portion of the park on patented lands, are hereby empowered in their discretion to obtain and accept for the United States a complete title to any and all patented lands within the boundaries of said park by the exchange of timber or timber and lands within the Yosemite National Park and the Sierra and Stanislaus National Forests for such lands and the timber thereon within the park, necessary conveyances of park and national forest timber or timber and lands to be made by said secretaries, respectively.
That the secretaries of the said departmentsExchange for patented land in Sierra and Stanislaus National Forests. may, and are hereby authorized to, acquire title in fee by the exchange of lands of the United States for patented lands not exceeding six hundred and forty acres in the Sierra and Stanislaus National Forests, adjacent and contiguous to the Yosemite National Park, and when such patented lands are thus acquired, said lands shall become a part of the Yosemite National Park and be subject to all the provisions of the Act of October first, eighteen hundred and ninety,Vol. 26, p. 650. entitled ‘An Act to set apart certain tracts of land in the State of California as forest reservations?.’ ” " Approved, April 16, 1914.