§ 435. Rules and regulations Full power is vested in the Secretary to provide, in all leases to be executed, against any combination among lessees or their assigns, as to ownership, prices, or accommodations at any bathhouse; as well and the Secretary is vested with power to make all needful rules and regulations as to the use of the hot water, and to prevent its waste, including full power to authorize the superintendent of the Hot Springs National Park to make examination and inspection at any time of the manner of using the hot water at any bathtub, that it may be used in proper quantity only, in order to prevent its waste; and also full power to provide and fix reasonable maximum charges for all baths, or bathing privileges, or services of any person connected with any bathhouse furnished to bathers; and for reasonable maximum charges to guests at the Arlington Hotel; and the Secretary may make all necessary rules and regulations as to said bathhouses and the service therein as shall be deemed best for the public interest, and may provide penalties for the violation of any regulation which may be enforced as though provided by Act of Congress. All leases and grants of hot-water privileges shall be held to be subject to all regulations adopted by the Secretary, and for any violation of any regulation, known to the proprietor at the time of the offense, the lease or grant may be canceled by the Secretary. It shall be expressly provided in all leases and grants of privilege for hot water that the bathhouse for which provision is made shall not be owned or controlled by any person, company, or corporation which may be the owner of or interested (as stockholder or otherwise) in any other bathhouse on or near the Hot Springs National Park; that neither the hot-water privilege granted nor any interest therein, nor the right to operate or control said bathhouse, shall be assigned or transferred by the lessee without the approval of the Secretary first obtained, in writing; and if the ownership or control of said bathhouse be transferred to any person, company, or corporation owning or interested in any other bathhouse on or near said reservation, the Secretary may, for that cause, deprive the bathhouse provided for of the hot water and may cancel the lease or agreement. All buildings to be erected in the Hot Springs National Park shall be on plans first approved by the Secretary and shall be required to be fireproof, as nearly as practicable. § 436. Investigation of applicant for lease or contract The Secretary, before executing any lease to bathhouses or bathhouse sites in the Hot Springs National Park or contracts for the use of hot water for bathhouses outside said park, shall make due investigation to ascertain whether the person, persons, or corporation applying for such lease or contract are not, directly or indirectly, interested in any manner whatever in any other bathhouse, lease, interest, or privilege at or near Hot Springs, Arkansas, or whether he or they belong to any pool, combination, or association so interested, or whether he or they are members or stockholders in any corporation so interested, or, if a corporation, whether its members or any of them are members or stockholders of any other corporation or association interested in any other bathhouse, lease, interest, or privilege as aforesaid, and in order to arrive at the facts in any such case he is authorized to send for persons and papers, administer oaths to witnesses, and require affidavits from applicants; and any such person making a false oath or affidavit in the premises shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than five years or both; and whenever, either at the time of leasing or other time it appears to the satisfaction of the said Secretary that such interest in other bathhouse, lease, interest, or privilege exists, or at any time any pool or combination exists between any two or more bathhouses or he deems it for the best interests of the management of the Hot Springs National Park and waters, or for the public interest he may refuse such lease, license, permit or other privilege, or forfeit any lease or privilege wherein the parties interested have become otherwise interested as aforesaid. § 437. Collection of water in park The authority conferred upon the Secretary to collect the hot water in Hot Springs National Park shall be so construed as to require water to be collected only where such collection is necessary for its proper distribution, and not where by gravity the same can be properly utilized. § 438. Sale of lots The Secretary may direct the public sale of all unsold Government lots in Hot Springs National Park, not permanently reserved on March 3, 1891, at the city of Hot Springs, after having had the same reappraised and advertised as required by law, and no lot shall be sold at less than the appraised price. § 439. Operation of bathhouse in connection with hotel Nothing in sections 434 to 438 of this title shall be so construed as to J. 627706 prevent the stockholders of any hotel from operating a bathhouse in connection with such hotel as a part thereof. § 440. Fees charged attendants, masseurs and physicians prescribing use of hot waters The Secretary may assess and collect from physicians who desire to prescribe the hot waters from the Hot Springs National Park reasonable fees for examination and registration; and he may assess and collect from bath attendants and masseurs operating in bathhouses receiving hot water from the park reasonable annual charges to cover the cost of physical examinations. § 441. Free bathhouses; use limited Only persons who are without and unable to obtain the means to pay for baths and are suffering from ailments for which bathing in the waters of the Hot Springs National Park will afford relief or effect a cure shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the public reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and before any person shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the reservation he shall be required to make oath, before such officer duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes as the superintendent of the Hot Springs National Park shall designate, that he is without and unable to obtain the means to pay for baths, and any person desiring to bathe at the free bathhouse on the Hot Springs National Park making a false oath as to his financial condition shall be deemed guilty of a petty offense and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $300 and be imprisoned for not more than sixty days. § 442. Taking or use of or bathing in water in violation of rules and regulations Any person who shall, except in compliance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary may deem necessary, enter or attempt to enter upon said tract, take, or attempt to take, use, or attempt to use, bathe in, or attempt to bathe in water of any spring located thereon, or without presenting satisfactory evidence that he or she (provided he or she is under medical treatment) is the patient of a physician duly registered at the office of the superintendent of the Hot Springs National Park as one qualified, under such rules which the Secretary may have made or shall make, to prescribe the waters of the Hot Springs, shall be deemed guilty of a petty offense and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $100. No physician who shall engage in the solicitation of patronage through the medium of drummers, or otherwise, shall be or remain registered. If any person so bathing, or attempting to bathe, or so entering, or attempting to enter upon the described tract, shall have the permit of a physician, such physician shall be liable to the penalties of this section, unless he be regularly registered; and such person shall not be liable to the penalties of this section, unless it shall be made to appear that he knew, or had reason to believe, that the physician giving him such permit was not regularly registered. § 443. Taxation under State laws The consent of the United States is given for the taxation, under the authority of the laws of the State of Arkansas applicable to the equal taxation of personal property in that State, as personal property, of all structures and other property in private ownership in the Hot Springs National Park. § 444. State service of process; fugitives from justice Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to forbid the service within the Hot Springs National Park of any civil or criminal process of any court having jurisdiction in the State of Arkansas. All fugitives from justice taking refuge in said park shall be subject to the same laws as fugitives from justice found in the State of Arkansas. Sec. CHAPTER 31-ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK- 461. Boundaries; location; continuance as park. 462. Donation of lands or funds for purchase required. 463. Acceptance of title to lands; reservations; leases; rights-of-way and easements. 464. Jurisdiction over Menagerie Island retained by Secretary of the Navy. 465. Jurisdiction; right to vote; fugitives from justice. § 461. Boundaries; location; continuance as park Isle Royale National Park, authorized March 3, 1931, and established April 3, 1940, shall continue as a national park embracing Isle Royale in Lake Superior, County of Keweenaw, State of Michigan, and immediately surrounding islands designated by the Secretary of the Interior, including: (a) Passage Island, containing approximately one hundred and eighty-two acres, located in sections 3, 4, and 9, township 67 north, range 32 west, in Keweenaw County, Michigan; provided, that the Secretary of the Navy shall retain control and jurisdiction over the following portions of the Island for lighthouse and boathouse purposes: (1) All that part of Passage Island lying south of a true east and west line located four hundred and twenty-five feet true north of the center of the Passage Island Light containing approximately six and five-tenths acres. (2) Beginning at the center of Passage Island Light, thence north thirty-three degrees fifty-two minutes east three thousand five hundred and fifteen feet to a point from which this description shall begin to measure, being the southwest corner of said boathouse site; thence north two hundred feet to a point being the northwest corner of said site; thence east one hundred and seventyfive feet more or less to the harbor shore; thence southeasterly following the harbor shore to a point on the shore being a point on the south boundary of the boathouse site; thence two hundred feet more or less west to the point of beginning, containing approximately seventy-eight one-hundredths acre. (3) A right-of-way between the sites described in the preceding subparagraphs, as defined by the Secretary of the Navy. (b) Lands of the abolished Siskiwit Islands Bird Reservation. (c) Any submerged lands within four and one-half miles of the shore line of Isle Royale and the immediately surrounding islands, the Secretary may acquire title by donation to any such lands not now owned by the United States, the title to be satisfactory to him. § 462. Donation of lands or funds for purchase required The United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any lands within the area described in section 461, but such lands shall be secured by the United States only by public or private donation. § 463. Acceptance of title to lands; reservations; leases; rightsof-way and easements The Secretary may accept title to lands tendered without cost to the United States within the area of the Isle Royale 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 said Secretary. The Secretary may lease upon such terms and conditions as he deems proper any lands within the aforesaid areas 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 |