16 U.S.C. § 341 — Establishment; description of area

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Land on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine — formerly called the Sieur de Monts National Monument — is declared a national park. It's now named Acadia National Park and dedicated as a public park for everyone's benefit. Acadia National Park can use all money that was or will be appropriated for the Sieur de Monts National Monument.

This section declares that certain tracts of land, easements, and other real estate on Mount Desert Island, in the county of Hancock, Maine, are a national park. Before February 26, 1919, this land was known as the Sieur de Monts National Monument. The section dedicates it as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, under the new name Acadia National Park. Under that new name, the park is entitled to receive and use all money that was appropriated, or will be appropriated, for the Sieur de Monts National Monument.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The tracts of land, easements, and other real estate known before February 26, 1919, as the Sieur de Monts National Monument, situated on Mount Desert Island, in the county of Hancock and State of Maine, are declared to be a national park and dedicated as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people under the name of the Acadia National Park, under which name the aforesaid national park shall be entitled to receive and to use all moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for Sieur de Monts National Monument.

Source credit: (Feb. 26, 1919, ch. 45, § 1, 40 Stat. 1178; Jan. 19, 1929, ch. 77, § 2, 45 Stat. 1083.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1919Enacted · Act of Feb. 26, 1919, ch. 45 · 40 Stat. 1178
1929Amended · Act of Jan. 19, 1929, ch. 77 · 45 Stat. 1083

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 45 on 1919-02-26.

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