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16 U.S.C. § 157 — Acquisition of lands
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and upon submission of evidence of title satisfactory to him, to accept, on behalf of the United States, title to the lands referred to in [section 156 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section156&num=0&edition=prelim) as may be deemed by him necessary or desirable for national-park purposes: Provided, That no land for the Big Bend National Park shall be accepted until exclusive jurisdiction over the entire area, in form satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, shall have been ceded by the State of Texas to the United States.
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and upon submission of evidence of title satisfactory to him, to accept, on behalf of the United States, title to the lands referred to in [section 156 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section156&num=0&edition=prelim) as may be deemed by him necessary or desirable for national-park purposes: Provided, That no land for the Big Bend National Park shall be accepted until exclusive jurisdiction over the entire area, in form satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, shall have been ceded by the State of Texas to the United States.
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When title to such lands as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary for recreational park purposes within the boundaries to be determined by him within the area of approximately one million five hundred thousand acres, in the counties of Brewster and Presidio, in the State of Texas, known as the “Big Bend” area, shall have been vested in the United States, such lands shall be established, dedicated, and set apart as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall be known as the “Big Bend National Park”: Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any land within the aforesaid area, but such lands shall be secured by the United States only by public and private donations.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 157
term of not more than six months for each of-
fense.
(Apr. 21, 1904, ch. 1402, § 18, 33 Stat. 220; June 29,
1906, No. 42, 34 Stat. 837; June 12, 1917, ch. 27, § 1,
40 Stat. 153; Pub. L. 94–235, § 5, Mar. 17, 1976, 90
Stat. 236.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
A clause of the original text making an appropriation
to carry out this provision and a provision for appraise-
ment of and payment for all improvements upon the
land have been omitted as executed.
Provisions requiring the Secretary to cover all
money received into the Treasury to the credit of mis-
cellaneous receipts were substituted for provisions
which permitted the expenditure of such money under
the direction of the Secretary for the care and manage-
ment of the lands and the preservation of the improve-
ments thereon in view of act June 12, 1917, which re-
quired the Secretary to cover the receipts of all reve-
nues of the national parks into the Treasury to the
credit of miscellaneous receipts.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
CHANGE OF NAME
Platt National Park designation repealed and areas
formerly known as Platt National Park made an inte-
gral part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area by
Pub. L. 94–235, § 5. See section 460hh–4 of this title.
REPEALS
Pub. L. 94–235, § 5, repealed act June 29, 1906, No. 42,
34 Stat. 837, cited as a credit to this section, under
which the name of the reservation at the village of Sul-
phur established by section 151 of this title, known as
Sulphur Springs Reservation, had been renamed Platt
National Park in honor of Orville Hitchcock Platt,
former senator from Connecticut ‘‘and for many years
a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in rec-
ognition of his distinguished services to the Indians
and t
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