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16 U.S.C. § 57 — Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks; exclusive jurisdiction of United States; jurisdiction remaining in and taxation by California
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Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over the territory embraced and included within the Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, and General Grant National Park, respectively, saving, however, to the State of California the right to serve civil or criminal process within the limits of the aforesaid parks or either of them in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed in said State outside of said parks; and saving further to the said State the right to tax persons and corporations, their franchises and property on the lands included in said parks, and the right to fix and collect license fees for fishing in said parks; and saving also to the persons residing in any of said parks now or hereafter the right to vote at all elections held within the county or counties in which said parks are situated.
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Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over the territory embraced and included within the Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, and General Grant National Park, respectively, saving, however, to the State of California the right to serve civil or criminal process within the limits of the aforesaid parks or either of them in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed in said State outside of said parks; and saving further to the said State the right to tax persons and corporations, their franchises and property on the lands included in said parks, and the right to fix and collect license fees for fishing in said parks; and saving also to the persons residing in any of said parks now or hereafter the right to vote at all elections held within the county or counties in which said parks are situated.
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The General Grant National Park is abolished, and the west half of section 33, township 13 south, range 28 east, and west half of section 4, all of section 8 and the northwest quarter of section 9, township 14 south, range 28 east, Mount Diablo meridian, California, together with the lands formerly within the General Grant National Park, California, and particularly described as follows, to wit: All of sections 31 and 32, township 13 south, range 28 east, and sections 5 and 6, township 14 south, range 28 east, of the same meridian, are, subject to valid existing rights, added to and made a part of the Kings Canyon National Park and such lands shall be known as the General Grant grove section of the said park. The General Grant grove section of the Kings Canyon National Park may, by proclamation of the President, be extended to include the following described lands, to wit: Section 9, south half, section 10, southwest quarter, and that part of the east half south of Generals Highway; section 11, that part south of Generals Highway; section 13, that part south of Generals Highway; section 14, that part south of Generals Highway, section 15, east half, northwest quarter, and the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter, section 21, southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, and the east half of the southeast quarter; section 22, east half, east half of the northwest quarter, southwest quarter of the northwest quarter and southwest quarter; section 23; section 24, that part south of Generals Highway; sections 25 and 26; section 27, east half, northwest quarter, and that part of the southwest quarter north and east of the crest of Redwood Mountain; section 34, that part east of the crest of Redwood Mountain; sections 35 and 36, township 14 south, range 28 east; all of sec
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 60
ented lands, and bond satisfactory to the Sec-
retary of the Interior must be given for the pay-
ment of such damages, if any, as shall be deter-
mined by the Secretary of the Interior.
(Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 74, § 3, 37 Stat. 81.)
§ 54. Sale of matured, dead, or down timber
The Secretary of the Interior may sell and
permit the removal of such matured or dead or
down timber as he may deem necessary or advis-
able for the protection or improvement of the
park, and the proceeds derived therefrom shall
be deposited and covered into the Treasury as
miscellaneous receipts.
(Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 74, § 4, 37 Stat. 81.)
§ 55. Leases of land in park; mortgages by lessees
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and
empowered to grant leases, for periods of not ex-
ceeding twenty years, at annual rentals, and
under terms and conditions to be determined by
him, to any person, corporation, or company he
may authorize to transact business in the Yo-
semite National Park, for separate tracts of
land, not exceeding twenty acres each, at such
places, not to exceed ten in number, to any per-
son, corporation, or company in said park, as
the comfort and convenience of visitors may re-
quire, for the construction and maintenance of
substantial hotel buildings and buildings for the
protection of motor cars, stages, stock and
equipment, and so forth. Such leases may, at the
option of the Secretary of the Interior, contain
appropriate provisions for the appraisement, at
the expiration of the lease, of the value of such
hotel and other buildings (or portions thereof)
as may be constructed by the lessees, respec-
tively, and the payment of the same to the les-
sees in case a new lease be made to persons
other than said lessees, such pay
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