Sec. CHAPTER 53-SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK VIRGINIA 731. Location; continuance as park. 732. Acquisition of additional land. 733. Acceptance of title to lands; leases; rights-of-way and easements. 734. Jurisdiction of Virginia and United States over lands in park. § 731. Location; continuance as park The Shenandoah National Park, situated in the State of Virginia, authorized May 22, 1926, and established as a national park December 26, 1935, with a minimum area of one hundred sixty thousand acres shall continue as a national park as limited by boundaries established or changed conformably to law. § 732. Acquisition of additional land The Secretary may accept, as hereinafter provided, on behalf of the United States any part of the lands described by the Secretary in his report of April 14, 1926, a tract consisting of approximately five hundred twenty one thousand acres, which are to be purchased with the $1,200,000 subscribed by the State of Virginia and the Shenandoah National Park Association of Virginia and with other contributions made for the purchase of lands in the Shenandoah National Park area. The United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any land within the aforesaid areas, but such lands shall be secured by the United States only by public or private donation. § 733. Acceptance of title to lands; leases; rights-of-way and easements The Secretary may accept title to lands tendered without cost to the United States within the area of the Shenandoah National Park, subject to leases entered into and granted as part consideration in connection with the purchase of said land for tender to the United States for park purposes, but not exceeding in length of term the life of the particular grantor or grantors; however, said leases and the terms and conditions thereof shall have previously been submitted to and approved by the Secretary. The Secretary may lease upon such terms and conditions as he deems proper any lands within the aforesaid area when such use shall not be deemed by him inconsistent with the purposes for which the lands were acquired on behalf of the United States, to persons, educational or religious institutions, private corporations, associations and partnerships previously occupying such land for terms not exceeding the particular lifetime in the case of natural persons, and not exceeding twenty years in all other cases, which latter leases may be renewed in the discretion of said Secretary; and he may accept lands for this park subject to reservations of rights and easements. of way § 734. Jurisdiction of Virginia and United States over lands in park The respective jurisdiction and powers of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States over all lands within the Shenandoah National Park is as follows: (a) The United States has exclusive jurisdiction, legislative, executive, and judicial, with respect to the commission of crimes, and the arrest, trial, and punishment therefor, and exclusive general police jurisdiction thereover. (b) The United States has the power to regulate or prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages on said lands; however, if the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited by general law in the Commonwealth of Virginia outside of said lands, no such alcoholic beverages shall be sold on said lands contained in said park area. If, however, the general laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia permit the sale of alcoholic beverages, then the regulations of the United States relating to such sales on said lands shall conform as nearly as possible to the regulatory provisions in accordance with which such sales are permitted in the Commonwealth of Virginia outside of said park lands. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as reserving in the Commonwealth power to require licenses of persons engaged in the sale of intoxicating beverages on said lands, nor the power to require that any sales be made through official liquor stores. (c) The Commonwealth of Virginia has jurisdiction to serve civil process within the limits of said park in any suits properly instituted in any of the courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to serve criminal process within said limits in any suits or prosecutions for or on account of crimes committed in said Commonwealth but outside of said park. (d) The Commonwealth of Virginia has the jurisdiction and power to levy a nondiscriminatory tax on all alcoholic beverages possessed or sold on said lands. (e) The Commonwealth of Virginia has jurisdiction and power to tax the sales of oil and gasoline, and other motor-vehicle fuels and lubricants for use in motor vehicles. This subsection shall not be construed as a consent by the United States to the taxation by the Commonwealth of such sales for the exclusive use of the United States. (f) The Commonwealth of Virginia has the jurisdiction and power to levy nondiscriminatory taxes on private individuals, associations, and corporations, their franchises and properties, on said lands, and on their businesses conducted thereon. (g) The courts of the Commonwealth of Virginia have concurrent jurisdiction with the courts of the United States of all civil causes of action arising on said lands to the same extent as if the cause of action had arisen in the county or city in which the land lies outside the park area, and the State officers shall have jurisdiction to enforce on said lands the judgments of said State courts and the collection of taxes by appropriate process. (h) Persons residing in or on any of the said lands embraced in said Shenandoah National Park have the right to establish a voting residence in Virginia by reason thereof, and the consequent right to vote at all elections within the county or city in which said land or lands upon which they reside are located upon like terms and conditions, and to the same extent, as they would be entitled to vote in such county or city if the said lands on which they reside had not been deeded or conveyed to the United States of America. All fugitives from justice taking refuge in the park are subject to the same laws as refugees from justice found in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Sec. CHAPTER 55-WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK- 761. Location; continuance as park; boundaries. 762. Former Wind Cave National Game Preserve; administration; rules and regulations. 763. Disposal of surplus buffalo and elk. § 761. Location; continuance as park; boundaries Wind Cave National Park, situated in the County of Custer, State of South Dakota, established as a national park January 9, 1903, shall continue as a national park as limited by boundaries described as follows: Beginning at the southeast corner of section 13, township 6 south, range 5 east; thence west to the southwest corner of section 15, township 6 south, range 5 east; thence north to the west quarter corner of section 10, township 6 south, range 5 east; thence to the north quarter corner of section 10, township 6 south, range 5 east; thence to the west quarter corner of section 2, township 6 south, range 5 east; thence north to the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 11, township 5 south, range 5 east; thence to the north quarter corner of section 11, township 5 south, range 5 east; thence to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 2, township 5 south, range 5 east, thence east to the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 6, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence in a southeasterly direction to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section 7, township 5 south, range 6 east along a line to be mutually acceptable to the South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks Commission and the Secretary of the Interior; thence from the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section 7, township 5 south, range 6 east; east to the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of section 12, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence south to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 12, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence east to the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 7, township 5 south, range 7 east; thence south to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 18, township 5 south, range 7 east; thence west to the northeast corner of section 24, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence south to the southeast corner of section 24, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence west to the southwest corner of section 24, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence south to the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 35, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence west to the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 35, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence south to the southeast corner of section 34, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence west to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 33, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence north to the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 28, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence west to the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of section 29, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence south to the southeast corner of section 7, township 6 south, range 6 east; thence west to the southwest corner of section 7, township 6 south, range 6 east; thence south to the southeast corner of section 13, township 6 south, range 5 east; the point of beginning, and all of those lands lying within the boundary above described, together with the south half of the northeast quarter and the west half of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 32, township 5 south, range 5 east, are a part of the Wind Cave National Park. § 762. Former Wind Cave National Game Preserve; administration; rules and regulations The Wind Cave National Game Preserve in the State of South Dakota, having been abolished July 1, 1935, and all the property, real or personal, comprising the same transferred to and made a part of the Wind Cave National Park, shall continue to be administered by the Secretary as a part of said park, subject to all laws and regulations applicable thereto, for a permanent national range for a herd of buffalo presented to the United States by the American Bison Society, and for such other native American game animals as may be placed therein. § 763. Disposal of surplus buffalo and elk (a) The Secretary may, under regulations to be prescribed by him, sell or otherwise dispose of the surplus buffalo and elk of the Wind Cave National Park herd. (b) All moneys received from the sale of any such surplus animals, or products thereof, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. Sec. CHAPTER 57—YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK— 791. Location; continuance as park; boundaries. 792. Jurisdiction over park; fugitives from justice. 793. Disposition of surplus elk, buffalo, bear, beaver, and predatory animals. 794. Provision of feed and range facilities for game animals. 795. Exchange for State or private lands authorized. 796. Reservation of timber, minerals, or easements by owners on exchange. 797. Private use of electricity from lighting and power plant. 798. Reimbursement of school district furnishing facilities for dependents of park employees. 799. Cooperation with local agencies in operation and construction of school facilities. 800. Funds for reimbursement of school district. 801. Detail of troops for protection of park. 802. Jail. 791. Location; continuance as park; boundaries The Yellowstone National Park, situated in the States of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, and established as a national park March 1, 1872, shall continue as a national park as limited by the following described boundaries: Beginning at the junction of the Gardiner River with the Yellowstone River near the town of Gardiner, Montana; thence east to an intersection with the hydrographic divide immediately north of Pebble Creek, approximately at park boundary monument 29 east; thence following said divide around the head of the drainage of Pebble Creek to its intersection with the meridian ten miles east of the easternmost |