Chapter 281. To provide for the securing of lands in the southern Appalachian Mountains and in the Mammoth Cave regions of Kentucky for perpetual preservation as national parks
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CHAP. 281.— An Act To provide for the securing of lands in the southern Appalachian Mountains and in the Mammoth Cave regions of Kentucky for perpetual preservation as national parks. February 21, 1925.[[S. 4109](/us/bill/68/s/4109).][[Public, No. 437](/us/pl/68/437).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * National parks.Determination of areas to be acquired for Shenandoah, Va., and Smoky Mountains, Tenn, and N.
C. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to determine the boundaries and area of such portion of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia lying east of the South Fork of the Shenandoah River and between Front Royal on the north and Waynesboro on the south as may be recommended by him to be acquired and administered as a national park, to be known as the Shenandoah Na959 tional Park, and such portion of the Smoky Mountains lying in Tennessee and North Carolina as may be recommended by him to be acquired and administered as a national park, to be known as the Smoky Mountains National Park, and in the MammothLands in Mammoth Cave regions of Kentucky, etc.
Cave regions of Kentucky and also such other lands in the southern Appalachian Mountains as in his judgment should be acquired and administered as national parks, and to receive definite offers of donations of lands and moneys, and to secure such optionsSecuring options, etc. as in his judgment may be considered reasonable and just for the purchase of lands within said boundaries, and to report to Congress thereon: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior may, for*Proviso*.Commission to be appointed. the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, appoint a commission of five members, composed of a representative of the Interior Department and four national park experts, said four members to serve without compensation.
Sec. 2. A sum sufficient to secure options and to pay the necessaryAmount authorized for expenses.*Post*, p. 1331. expenses of the commission in carrying out the provisions of this Act, including the salary of one clerk to the commission at a rate not to exceed $2,000 per annum, necessary traveling expenses of the members of the commission, and $10 per diem in lieu of actual cost of subsistence, in all, not to exceed $20,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated. Approved, February 21, 1925.