16 U.S.C. § 156 — Establishment; boundaries

Page 101 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 Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries CHANGE OF NAME Platt National Park designation repealed and areas formerly known as Platt National Park made an inte- gral part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area by Pub.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 L. 94–235, § 5, repealed act June 29, 1906, No. 42, 34 Stat. 837, cited as a credit to this section, under which the name of the reservation at the village of Sul- phur established by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 the country.’’ § 153. Existing laws unaffected by admission of Oklahoma; rights and jurisdiction of United States; indemnity school lands Nothing in the Act of June 16, 1906, chapter 3335, Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 267, entitled, ‘‘An Act to enable the people of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States * * *’’, shall repeal or affect any Act of Congress relating to the Sulphur Springs Res- ervation as defined on June 16, 1906, or as may be thereafter defined or extended, or the power of the United States over it or any other lands embraced in the State hereafter set aside by Congress as a national park, game preserve, or for the preservation of objects of archaeological or ethnological interest; and nothing contained in said Act shall interfere with the rights and ownership of the United States in any land here- after set aside by Congress as national park, game preserve, or other reservation, or in the said Sulphur Springs Reservation, as it was on June 16, 1906, or may be defined or extended by law; but exclusive legislation, in all cases what- soever, shall be exercised by the United States, which shall have exclusive control and jurisdic- tion over the same; but nothing in this section contained shall be construed to prevent the service within said Sulphur Springs Reservation or national parks, game preserves, and other reservations hereafter established by law, of civil and criminal processes lawfully issued by the authority of said State, and said State shall not be entitled to select indemnity school lands for the thirteenth, sixteenth, thirty-third, and thirty-sixth sections that may be embraced within the metes and bounds of the national park, game preserve, and other reservation or the said Sulphur Springs Reservation, as defined on June 16, 1906, or may be thereafter defined. (June 16, 1906, ch. 3335, § 7, 34 Stat. 272; June 29, 1906, No. 42, 34 Stat. 837; Pub. L. 94–235, § 5, Mar. 17, 1976, 90 Stat. 236.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION Section is from a proviso annexed to section 7 of act June 16, 1906. 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 to the country.’’ SUBCHAPTER XVII—BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK § 156. Establishment; boundaries When title to such lands as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary for recreational park purposes within the bound- aries to be determined by him within the area of approximately one million five hundred thou- sand acres, in the counties of Brewster and Pre- sidio, in the State of Texas, known as the ‘‘Big Bend’’ area, shall have been vested in the United States, such lands shall be established, dedi- cated, and set apart as a public park for the ben- efit and enjoyment of the people and shall be known as the ‘‘Big Bend National Park’’: Pro- vided, 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. (June 20, 1935, ch. 283, § 1, 49 Stat. 393.) § 157. Acquisition of lands 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