APPENDIX D

LEGISLATION

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Legislation affecting the national parks, enacted by Congress since date of the seventh annual report--

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Presidential proclamations relating to the national monuments, issued since date of the seventh annual report----

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Executive orders relating to national parks and national monuments, issued since date of the seventh annual report_-

LEGISLATION

[PUBLIC-No. 70-68TH CONGRESS]

[H. R. 3682]

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An Act Authorizing the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks and monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior, in his administration of the National Park Service, is hereby authorized to construct, reconstruct, and improve roads and trails, inclusive of necessary bridges, in the national parks and monuments under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior.

SEC. 2. That for such purposes, including the making of necessary surveys and plans, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, to be available until expended: The sum of $2,500,000 for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1924, and June 30, 1925; the sum of $2,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926; and the sum of $2,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1927.

SEC. 3. That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to reserve from distribution to the several States, in addition to the 10 per centum authorized by section 5 of the Act of November 10, 1921 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, Lage 213), not exceeding 5 per centum of the material, equipment, and supplies hereafter received from the Secretary of War, and to transfer said material, equipment, and supplies to the Secretary of the Interior for use in constructing, reconstructing, improving, and maintaining roads and trails in the national parks and monuments: Provided, That no charge shall be made for such transfer except such sums as may be agreed upon as being reasonable charges for freight, handling, and conditioning for efficient use. Approved, April 9, 1924.

[PUBLIC NO. 172-68тH CONGRESS]

[H. R. 2713]

An Act To transfer certain lands of the United States from the Rocky Mountain National Park to the Colorado National Forest, Colorado

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That those portions of the followingdescribed tracts now within the Rocky Mountain National Park be, and are hereby, transferred to the Colorado National Forest and shall hereafter be subject to all laws relating to the use and administration of the national

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forests: Section 10; northwest quarter of southeast quarter, southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, and the southwest quarter of section 11; northwest quarter of the northeast quarter, north half of the northwest quarter, and the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 15; and the northeast quarter of section 16; township 6 north, range 75 west, sixth principal meridian, Approved, June 2, 1924.

[PUBLIC-No. 198-68TH CONGRESS]

[H. R. 4985]

An Act To repeal the first proviso of section 4 of an Act to establish a national park in the Territory of Hawaii, approved August 1, 1916

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first proviso of section 4 of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a national park in the Territory of Hawaii." approved August 1, 1916, which is in words and figures following: 'Provided, That no appropriation for the maintenance, supervision, and improvement of said park in excess of $10,000 annually shall be made unless the same shall have first been expressly authorized by law," be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

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Approved, June 5, 1924.

[Excerpts from an act making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, and for other purposes]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

NATIONAL PARKS

For the Director of the National Park Service and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with "The Classification Act of 1923," $44,000.

For compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior for accounting services in the District of Columbia or in the field in checking and verifying the accounts and records of the various operators, licensees, and permittees conducting utilities and other enterprises within the national parks and monuments under his jurisdiction, including necessary travel and incidental expenses while absent from their designated headquarters, $6,000.

Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $26,400; for construction of physical improvements, $4,300, of which not exceeding $2,800 shall be available for a community house at the rim auto camp, and $1,500 for altering a cabin into an administration building; in all, $30,700.

General Grant National Park, California: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, $14,175.

Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park and the international boundary, including not exceeding $3,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horsedrawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $145,000; for construction of physical improvements, $136,000, including not exceeding $100,000 for the continued construction of the transmountain road connecting the east and west sides of the park, and not exceeding $7,400 for the construction of buildings; in all, $281,000.

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $95,000; for construction of physical improvements, $21,000, including not exceeding $11,500 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $3,000 shall be available for the construction of a mess hall; in all, $116,000.

For the construction of trails within the Grand Canyon National Park, $100,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: Provided, That said sum may be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the purchase from the county of Coconino, Arizona, of the Bright Angel toll road and trail within said park under such terms and conditions as he may deem proper and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct an approach road from the National Old Trails Highway to the south boundary of said park.

Hawaii National Park: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, and including not exceeding $600 for the construction of buildings, $10,000.

Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas: For administration, protection, and maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $2,500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $60,000; for construction of physical improvements, $18,000, including not exceeding $15,000 for replacement of existing sewer along front of Hot Springs National Park and to continue off reservation to connect with sewer system of city of Hot Springs, and not exceeding $3,000 for erection of a comfort station; in all, $78,000: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to accept the fee-simple titie to a certain tract of land adjoining the Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, described as being the west half of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27, township 2 south, range 19 west, fifth principal meridian, containing sixteen acres, more or less, situated in Garland County, State of Arkansas, donated to the United States of America for use in connection with Hot Springs National Park: Provided, That such lands when accepted by the Secretary of the Interior shall be and remain a part of Hot Springs National Park.

Lafayette National Park, Maine: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $500 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, and including $1,500 for the construction of ranger quarters, $34,700. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California: For protection and improvement, $3,000.

Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,400 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $33,000; for construction of physical improvements, $5,500, which shall be available for the construction of buildings, including not exceeding $2,500 for a ranger station and not exceeding $3,000 for employees' dormitory building and mess hall; for additional water system at Spruce Tree Camp Headquarters, $4,000; in all, $42,500.

Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska: For protection and improvement, including not exceeding $200 for the construction of buildings, $11,020.

Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,800 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $72,000; for construction of physical improvements, $28,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for completion of the widening of the Nisqually entrance to Paradise Valley Road, and not exceeding $3,500 for the construction of buildings, of which not exceeding $3,000 shall be available for a comfort station; in all, $100,000.

Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, $10,000.

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $1,000 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $65,000; for construction of physical improvements, $28,000, including

not exceeding $15,000 for the continuation of widening and other improvements of the Fall River Road, and including $7,500 for the construction of buildings; in all, $93,000.

Sequoia National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,180 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $55,000; for construction of physical improvements, $81,000, including not exceeding $40,000 for completion of widening and grading Middle Fork Road, not exceeding $39,500 for a sewer system at Giant Forest, and not exceeding $1,750 for the construction of buildings; in all, $136,000.

Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding $800 for construction of an entrance building to the cave, $10,000.

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Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $7,600 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $8,400 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, not exceeding $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the south boundary, and including feed for buffalo and other animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $336,800; for construction of physical improvements, $36,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for a sewer system at the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, not exceeding $10,000 for auto camps, and not exceeding $1,200 for the construction of buildings; in all, $372,800.

Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, protection, and maintenance, including not exceeding $2,100 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $3,200 for maintenance of that part of the Wawona Road in the Sierra National Forest between the park boundary two miles north of Wawona and the park boundary near the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, and not exceeding $2,000 for maintenance of the road in the Stanislaus National Forest connecting the Tioga Road with Mather Station on the Hetch Hetchy Railroad, $229,000; for construction of physical improvements, $80,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for completion of installation of flush toilets and waste hoppers in public camps, not exceeding $10,000 for the installation of a garbage incinerator, and not exceeding $9,500 for the completion of the installation of an administrative unit at Tuolumne Meadows and the erection of ranger stations at Alder Creek and Bridal Veil stations on the Wawona Road and El Capitan Station on the Big Oak Flat Road; in all, $309,000.

Zion National Park, Utah; For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, $15,190.

National monuments: For administration, protection, maintenance, preservation, and improvement of the national monuments, $20,750, of which the sum of $5,000 shall be immediately available for construction of physical improvements of Carlsbad Cave National Monument.

For reconstruction, replacement, and repair of roads, trails, bridges, buildings, and other physical improvements in national parks or national monuments that are damaged or destroyed by flood, fire, storm, or other unavoidable causes, during the fiscal year 1925, $20,000.

Fighting forest fires in national parks: For fighting forest fires in national parks or other areas administered by the National Park Service, or fires that endanger such areas, and for replacing buildings or other physical improvements that have been destroyed by forest fires within such areas, $20,000: Provided, That these funds shall not be used for any precautionary fire protection or patrol work prior to actual occurrence of the fire: And provided further, That the allotment of these funds to the various national parks or areas administered by the National Park Service for fire-fighting purposes shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior, and then only after the obligation for the expenditure has been incurred, and the Secretary of the Interior shall submit with his annual estimate of expenditures a report showing the location, size, and description of each forest fire, together with the number of men, their classification, and rate of pay and actual time employed,

and a statement of expenditures showing the cost for labor, supplies, special service, and other expenses covered by the expenditures made from these funds. Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditures in the various national parks named, but not more than 10 per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said parks or for any particular item within a park.

Appropriations herein made for construction of physical improvements in national parks shall be immediately available. Approved June 5, 1924.

[PUBLIC NO. 239-68TH CONGRESS]

[S. 1987]

An Act Accepting certain tracts of land in the city of Medford, Jackson County, Oregon

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept certain tracts of land in the city of Medford, Jackson County, Oregon, described as lots numbered 15 and 16, block 9, amended plat to Queen Ann Addition to the city of Medford; and lot 3, block 2, central subdivision to the city of Medford, which have been tendered to the United States of America in fee simple by the city of Medford, Oregon, as sites for buildings to be used in connection with the administration of Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Approved, June 7, 1924.

[PUBLIC NO. 227-68TH CONGRESS]

[S. 668]

An Act To establish the Utah National Park in the State of Utah

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or disposal under the laws of the United States and dedicated and set apart as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, under the name of the "Utah National Park," the tract of land in the State of Utah particularly described by and included within metes and bounds, as follows, to wit:

Unsurveyed sections 31 and 32, township 36 south, range 3 west; surveyed section 36, township 36 south, range 4 west; north half, southwest quarter and west half of the southeast quarter of partially surveyed section 5; unsurveyed sections 6 and 7, west half, west half of the northeast quarter, and west half of the southwest quarter of partially surveyed section 8, partially surveyed section 17 and unsurveyed section 18, township 37 south, range 3 west; and unsurveyed sections 1, 12, and 13, township 37 south, range 4, all west of the Salt Lake meridian, in the State of Utah: Provided, That all the land within the exterior boundaries of the aforesaid tract shall first become the property of the United States.

SEC. 2. That the administration, protection, and promotion of said Utah National Park shall be exercised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by the National Park Service, subject to the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1916, entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes."

SEC. 3. That nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing claim, location, or entry under the land laws of the United States, whether for homestead, mineral, right of way, or any other purpose whatsoever, or shall affect the rights of any such claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his land: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to exchange, in his discretion, alienated lands in this and Zion National Park for unappropriated and unreserved public lands of equal value and approximately equal area in the State of Utah outside of said parks. Approved, June 7, 1924.