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AN ACT RESPECTING THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS PARK OF CANADA. I 



Chap. 32 of 50-51 Viet, setting- apart a national park at Banff in the Rocky I 

 Mountains reads thus : 



Whereas it is expedient in the public interest that a national park and 

 sanatorium should be set apart and established in the North-west Territories ; I 

 Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and 

 House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows : 



1. The tract of land comprised within the limits hereinafter set forth, that ] 

 is to say, commencing at the easterly end of Castle Mountain station grounds, on I 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway, as shown on a plan of right-of-way tiled in the > 

 Department of Rail ways and Canals by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, I 

 thence on a course about south thirty-five degrees east, ten miles, more or less, to I 

 a point in latitude seven minutes, six seconds and ninety-six hundredths of a 

 second south of the point of commencement, and in longitude seven minutes, fifty- I 

 four seconds and ninety-eight hundredths of a second east of the point of com- I 

 mencement ; thence on a course about north fifty-five degrees east, twenty-six: I 

 miles, more or less, to a point in latitude five minutes, forty-six seconds and twenty | 

 hundredths of a second north of the point of commencement, and in longitude I 

 thirty-seven minutes, twenty -three seconds and thirty -one hundredths of a second 

 east of the point of commencement ; thence on a course about north thirty-five 

 degrees west, ten miles, more or less, to a point in latitude twelve minutes, fifty- 

 three seconds and ninety-one hundredths of a second north of the point of 

 commencement, and in longitude twenty-nine minutes, thirty-two seconds and 

 thirty-eight hundredths of a second east of the point of commmencement ; thence 

 on a course about south fifty-five degrees west, twenty-six miles, more or less, to 

 the place of commencement, containing by admeasurement two hundred and sixtyl 

 square miles, be the same more or less, so far as the title to the said tract of land I 

 in whole or in part, is now vested in the Crown, is hereby withdrawn from sale, I 

 settlement and occupancy under the provisions of " The Dominion Lands Act " or 

 any regulations made under the said Act or any other Act with respect to mining 

 or timber licenses or any other matter whatsoever. 



2. The said tract of land is hereby reserved and set apart as a public park 

 and pleasure ground for the benefit, advantage and enjoyment of the people of 

 Canada, subject to the provisions of this Act and of the regulations hereinafter 

 mentioned, and shall be known as the Rocky Mountains Park of Canada. 



3. No person shall, except as hereinafter provided, locate, settle upon, use 

 or occupy any portion of the said public park. 



4. The park shall be under the control and management of the Minister of the 

 Interior, and the Governor-in-council may make regulations for the following 

 purposes : 



(a) The care, preservation and management of the park and of the water- 

 courses, lake, trees and shrubbery, minerals, natural curiosities and other matters 

 therein contained. 



(6) The control of the hot springs situate in the said park, and their manage- 

 ment and utilization for purposes of bathing and sanitation and in every other - 

 respect. 





