16 U.S.C. § 47a — Addition of certain lands to park authorized

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The President can add certain land in California to Yosemite National Park. This is meant to protect and consolidate stands of timber along the park's western edge. The Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture must both recommend it first, and the President adds it by proclamation.

This section authorizes the President to expand Yosemite National Park in order to preserve and consolidate timber stands along the park's western boundary. Before the President can act, both the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture must jointly recommend the addition. If they do, the President may add the land to Yosemite National Park by Executive proclamation. The specific land involved is section 1 and the north half of section 12, in township 1 south, range 19 east, Mount Diablo meridian, in California.

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For the purpose of preserving and consolidating timber stands along the western boundary of the Yosemite National Park the President of the United States is authorized, upon the joint recommendation of the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture, to add to the Yosemite National Park, in the State of California, by Executive proclamation, section 1 and the north half of section 12, township 1 south, range 19 east, Mount Diablo meridian.

Source credit: (May 9, 1930, ch. 234, § 1, 46 Stat. 265.)

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1930Enacted · Act of May 9, 1930, ch. 234 · 46 Stat. 265

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