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CONGRESS. (MISCELLANEOUS.) 



township No. 17 north, of range 10 east of the 

 Willamette meridian (but in locating said east- 

 erly boundary, wherever the summit of the Cas- 

 cade mountains is sharply and well denned, the 

 said line shall follow the said summit, where the 

 said summit line bears west of the easterly line 

 as herein determined) ; thence westerly along tire 

 township line between said townships Nos. 17 

 and 18 to the place of beginning, the same being 

 a portion of the lands which were reserved from 

 entry or settlement and set aside as a public 

 reservation by proclamation of the President on 

 the twentieth day of February, in the year of 

 our Lord 1893. and of the independence of the 

 United States the one hundred and seventeenth, 

 are hereby dedicated and set apart as a public 

 park, to lie known and designated as the Mount 

 Rainier National Park, for the benefit and enjoy- 

 ment of the people; and all persons who shall 

 locate or settle upon or occupy the same, or any 

 part thereof, except as hereafter provided, shall 

 be considered trespassers and be removed there- 

 from. 



" SEC. 2. That said public park shall be under 

 the exclusive control of the Secretary of the In- 

 terior, whose duty it shall be to make and pub- 

 lish, as soon as practicable, such rules and regu- 

 lations as he may deem necessary or proper for 

 the care and management of the same. Such 

 regulations shall provide for the preservation 

 from injury or spoliation of all timber, mineral 

 deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within 

 said park, and their retention in their natural 

 condition. The Secretary may, in his discretion, 

 grant parcels of ground at such places in said 

 park as shall require the erection of buildings 

 for the accommodation of visitors; all of the 

 proceeds of said leases, and all other revenues 

 that may be derived from any source connected 

 with said park, to be expended under his direc- 

 tion in the management of the same, and the 

 construction of roads and bridle paths therein. 



" And through the lands of the Pacific Forest 

 Reserve adjoining said park rights of way are 

 hereby granted, under such restrictions and regu- 

 lations as the Secretary of the Interior may estab- 

 lish, to any railway or tramway company or 

 companies, through the lands of said Pacific For- 

 est Reserve, and also into said park hereby cre- 

 ated, for the purpose of building, constructing, 

 and operating a railway, constructing and operat- 

 ing a railway or tramway line or lines, through 

 said lands, also into said park. He shall provide 

 against the wanton destruction of the fish and 

 game found within said park, and against their 

 capture or destruction for the purposes of mer- 

 chandise or profit. He shall also cause all per- 

 sons trespassing upon the same after the passage 

 of this act to be removed therefrom, and gen- 

 erally shall be authorized to take all such meas- 

 ures as shall be necessary to fully carry out the 

 objects and purposes of this act. 



" SEC. 3. That upon execution and filing with 

 the Secretary of the Interior, by the Northern 

 Pacific Railroad Company, of proper deed releas- 

 ing and conveying to the' United States the lands 

 in the reservation hereby created, also the lands 

 in the Pacific Forest Reserve which have been 

 heretofore granted by the United States to said 

 company, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, and 

 which lie opposite said company's constructed 

 road, said company is hereby authorized to select 

 an equal quantity of nonmineral public lands, so 

 classified as nonmineral at the time of actual 

 Government survey, which has been or shall be 

 made, of the United States not reserved and to 

 which no adverse right or claim shall have at- 



tached or have been initiated at the time of the 

 making of such selection, lying within any State 

 into or through w T hich the railroad of said North- 

 ern Pacific Railroad Company runs, to the extent 

 of the lands so relinquished and released to the 

 United States. 



"Provided, That any settlers on lands in said 

 national park may relinquish their rights thereto 

 and take other public lands in lieu thereof, to 

 the same extent and under the same limitations 

 and conditions as are provided by law for forest 

 reserves and national parks. 



" SEC. 4. That upon the filing by the said rail- 

 road company at the local land office of the land 

 district in which any tract of land selected and 

 the payment of the fees prescribed by law in 

 analogous cases, and the approval of the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior, he shall cause to be executed, 

 in due form of law, and deliver to said company, 

 a patent of the United States conveying to it 

 the lands so selected. In case the tract so se- 

 lected shall at the time of selection be unsur- 

 veyed, the list filed by the company at the local 

 land office shall describe such tract in such man- 

 ner as to designate the same with a reasonable 

 degree of certainty : and within the period of 

 three months after the lands including such tract 

 shall have been surveyed and the plats thereof 

 filed by said local land office, a new selection list 

 shall be filed by said company, describing such 

 tract according to such survey; and in case such 

 tract, as originally selected and described in the 

 list filed in the local land office, shall not precisely 

 conform with the lines of the official survey, the 

 said company shall be permitted to describe such 

 tract anew, so as to secure such conformity. 



" SEC. 5. That the mineral-land laws of the 

 United States are hereby extended to the' lands 

 lying within the said reserve and said park." 



Miscellaneous. Apart from legislation for 

 the District of Columbia and the usual multitude 

 of private acts, the following measures were also 

 passed: 



For the relief of certain homestead settlers in 

 Florida. 



To change proceedings for admission to the 

 Government Hospital for the Insane in certain 

 cases and for other purposes. 



Authorizing the President to appoint addi- 

 tional cadets at large to the United States Naval 

 Academy. 



To ratify agreements with the Indians of Lower 

 Brule and Rosebud reservations in South Dakota, 

 and making appropriations to carry the same 

 into effect. 



To amend section 27 of the Revised Statutes 

 so as to allow the use of voting machines in con- 

 gressional elections when authorized by a State 

 law. 



Reviving the grade of admiral in the navy. 



To amend section 25 of the act of June 13, 1898, 

 by adding the clause: "Whenever any bond or 

 note shall be secured by a mortgage, but one 

 stamp shall be required to be placed .upon such 

 papers: Provided, That the stamp tax placed 

 thereon shall be the highest rate required for 

 said instruments, or either of them." 



To give preference right to settlers in entry of 

 lands in Greer County, Oklahoma. 



To limit the suspension of certain provisions 

 of law relating to the War Department until 

 March 1, 1900. 



Establishing a criminal code for Alaska. 



For public buildings at Abilene, Texas; Al- 

 toona, Pa.; Annapolis, Md.: Anniston, Ala.; 

 Baltimore, Md. ; Beaumont, Texas; Blair. Neb.; 

 Bristol, Tenn.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; Brunswick, Ga.; 



