HISTORY 43 



Secretary of the Interior. Proceeds from the sale of lots and 

 receipts from water rents were to be devoted to the reservation. 

 The act of December i6, 1878 (20 Stat. L., 258) authorized 

 the Secretary of the Interior to execute leases on the perman- 

 ent reservation, and directed the superintendent, out of the 

 rentals, to provide free baths for the indigent. The act of 

 June 16, 1880 (21 Stat. L., 288) added the other undivided 

 mountainous districts to the permanent reservation, and ceded 

 the streets and thoroughfares not in the permanent reservation 

 to the town of Hot Springs, a municipal corporation of the 

 State of Arkansas. 



The Government Free Bath House was authorized in 1878, 

 and has been enlarged from time to time. In 1920 construc- 

 tion of a new free bath house was begun. Besides the free 

 bath house, there are nineteen pay bath houses in Hot Springs 

 receiving hot water from the park, the rates charged for baths 

 being fixed in each instance by the Secretary of the Interior. 

 Under governmental authority a free clinic was organized in 

 April 1916 in connection with the free bath house. 



The act of June 30, 1882 (22 Stat. L., 121) appropriated 

 $100,000 for an Army and Navy Hospital to be erected on 

 the reservation and to be subject to such rules, regulations, 

 and restrictions as might be provided by the President of the 

 United States. 



Acceptance was made by act of April 20, 1904 (30 Stat. 

 L., 187) of cession.by the State of Arkansas of exclusive juris- 

 diction over a portion of the permanent reservation on the 

 Hot Springs Mountain. This act was amended by the acts of 

 March 2, 1907 (34 Stat. L., 1218) and March 3, 191 1 (36 

 Stat. L., 1086) so as to make more definite the provision re- 

 garding a United States Commissioner. 



The National Moniunents. Individual sketches of the na- 

 tional monuments would be superfluous. They received no 

 appropriations prior to 1917. Since then, appropriations 

 general and special have totalled $75,500. They were placed 



