Public Law 840.
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(/us/pl/74/839).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, State of California.Selection of certain lands by, for park purposes, authorized. That subject to valid rights existing on the date of this Act, the State of California may within five years select for State park purposes by legal subdivisions all or any portion of the public land not reserved for public purposes in the following townships: 2028 Description.Township 9 south, range 9 east; township 9 south, range 10 east; township 10 south, range 9 east; township 10 south, range 10 east; township 10 south, range 11 east; township 11 south, range 9 east; township 11 south, range 10 east; and township 11 south, range 11 east, San Bernardino meridian.
Lands selected of desert growth and scenic, etc., features.Upon the submission of satisfactory proof that the land selected contains characteristic desert growth and scenic or other natural features which it is desirable to preserve as a part of the California State park system the Secretary of the Interior shall cause patents *Proviso*.Minerals, etc., reserved.to issue therefor: *Provided*, That there shall be reserved to the United States all coal, oil, gas, or other mineral contained in such lands, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same at such times and under such conditions as the Secretary of the Water rights.Interior may prescribe: *Provided further*, That any patent so issued shall contain a provision reserving to the United States for the use of the United States and its permittees, including Imperial Irrigation District, the perpetual right to flow or permit water to flow over or pond or permit water to be ponded upon any part of the lands so patented with right to go upon same and to locate, relocate, construct, reconstruct, and maintain any works necessary or convenient to the full use thereof including telephone and electrical Reversionary provision.transmission lines, and shall also contain provision for reversion of title to the United States upon a finding by the Secretary of the Interior that for a period of more than one year the land has not been Exchanges to effect consolidation.used by the State for park purposes: *And provided further*, That in order to consolidate park areas or to eliminate private holdings therefrom lands patented hereunder may be exchanged with the approval of and under rules prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for privately owned lands in the area hereinbefore described of approximately equal value containing the natural features sought Conditions Imposed.to be preserved hereby.
The lands so acquired to be subject to all the conditions and reservations prescribed by this Act, including the reversionary clause hereinbefore set out. Approved, June 29, 1936. To provide for the establishment of the Whitman National Monument. 1936-06-29 863 Chapter United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 49 Stat. 2028 74 2 public [CHAPTER 863.] AN ACT To provide for the establishment of the Whitman National Monument.
June 29, 1936.[[H. R. 7736](/us/bill/74/hr/8599).][[Public, No. 840](/us/pl/74/840).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Whitman National Monument, Wash. That the Secretary Acquisition of site of Indian mission, etc.of the Interior is authorized and directed to acquire, on behalf of the United States, by gift, the site of the Indian mission established in 1836 by Marcus Whitman on the Walla Walla River in what is now Walla Walla County, Washington, together with such additional land, including a right-of-way to the nearest highway, as the Secretary may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Sec. 2. Establishment of national monument. The property acquired under the provisions of section 1 of this Act shall constitute the Whitman National Monument and shall be a public national memorial to Marcus Whitman and his wife, Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, who here established their Indian mission and school, and ministered to the physical and spiritual needs of the Indians until massacred with twelve others 11So in original. persons in 1847. Administration, etc.Vol. 39, p. 535.The Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and control of such national monument, and shall maintain 2029and preserve it for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States.
Sec. 3. Any State, or political subdivision thereof, organization, Erection of monuments or placing of tablets.or individual may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, erect monuments or place tablets within the boundaries of the Whitman National Monument. Sec. 4. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may Appropriation authorized.be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved, June 29, 1936. To authorize the adjustment of the boundary of the Fort Marion National Monument, Florida, in the vicinity of Fort Marion Circle, and for other purposes. 1936-06-29 864 Chapter United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-07 49 Stat. 2029 74 2 public [CHAPTER 864.] AN ACT To authorize the adjustment of the boundary of the Fort Marion National Monument, Florida, in the vicinity of Fort Marion Circle, and for other purposes. June 29, 1936.[[H. R. 12220](/us/bill/74/hr/12220).][
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