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AX ACT TO SET APART A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND IX TEE STATE 



OF CALIFORNIA AS A PUBLIC PARR. 



Whereas the rapid destruction of timber and ornamental trees in various 

 parts of the United States, some of which trees are the wonders of the world 

 on account of their size and the limited number growing, makes it a matter of 

 importance that at least some of said forests should be preserved. Therefore, be 

 it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of 

 America in Congress assembled, that the tract of land in the State of California 

 known and described as township number eighteen south, of range numbered thirty 

 east ; also township eighteen, south range thirty-one east, and sections thirty -one, 

 thirty-two, thirty-three, and thirty-four, township s >;ith range thirty 



east, all east of Mount Diablo meridian, is hereby reserved and withdrawn from 

 settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, awl il'dica 

 and set apart as a public park or pleasure ground, for the benefit and cn^ment 

 of the people ; and all persons who shall locate or settle upon, or occupy the same 

 or any part thereof, except as hereinafter provided, shall be considered trespa-s- 

 and removed therefrom. 



Section 2. That said public park shall be under the exclusive control of the 

 Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as as practicable, to make 



and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or proper for 

 the care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide for the 

 servation from injury 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 leases for building purposes for terms not 

 -xceeding ten years of small parcels of ground not exceeding five acres, at such 

 places in said park as shall require the erection of buildings For the accomr 

 dation of visitors ; all of the proceeds of said leases and other revenues that may be 

 derived from any source connected with the said park to be expended under his 

 direction in the management of the same and the construction of roads an 1 paths 

 therein. He shall provide against the wanton destruction of the fish an found 



within said park, and against their capture or destruction for the purp >ses of 

 merchandise or profit. He shall also cause all persons trespassing up.m the s-ime 

 after the pissage of this Act, to be removed therefrom, and -ally -hall be 



authorized to take all such measures as shall be necessary or proper to fully c u 

 out ttie objects and purposes of this Act. 



Passed the House of Representatives, August 23rd, 1-SOO : approved 

 25th, 1890. 



