CITE

    16 USC Sec. 404                                             01/05/2009

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    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
    SUBCHAPTER XLVII - MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK

HEAD

    Sec. 404. Establishment; boundaries

STATUTE

      When title to lands within the area referred to in this section
    shall have been vested in the United States in fee simple, there
    shall be, and there is, established, dedicated, and set apart as a
    public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, the tract
    of land in the Mammoth Cave region in the State of Kentucky, being
    approximately seventy thousand six hundred and eighteen acres,
    recommended as a National Park by the Southern Appalachian National
    Park Commission to the Secretary of the Interior, in its report of
    April 8, 1926, and made under authority of the Act of February 21,
    1925 (chapter 281, 43 Statutes 958); which area, or any part or
    parts thereof as may be accepted on behalf of the United States in
    accordance with the provisions hereof, shall be known as the
    Mammoth Cave 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 or private donation.

SOURCE

    (May 25, 1926, ch. 382, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 635.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

      Act of February 21, 1925, referred to in text, was not classified
    to the Code.