HISTORY 13 



the Grand Canyon National Park, to the effect that the pro- 

 vision of the original law with regard to the granting of priv- 

 ileges, leases, and permits shall, in the case of the Grand 

 Canyon Park, be so construed that such privileges, leases, 

 etc., "shall be let at public auction to the best and most re- 

 sponsible bidder." The second amendment is part of the 

 act of June 2, 1920 (41 Stat. L., 731), accepting, on the part 

 of the National Government, the cession by the State of Cali- 

 fornia, of jurisdiction over Sequoia, Yosemite, and General 

 Grant Parks. A clause of that act makes a change in the pen- 

 alties provided in the original act for violation of rules and 

 regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior. 



Since the creation of the service in August, 1916, four new 

 parks and five new monuments have been added to the sys- 

 tem, which now totals nineteen parks and twenty-four monu- 

 ments, with a total area of 12,674 square miles. A table of all 

 the parks, together with a map, will be found near the end of 

 this section. A table of the monuments is given with the sec- 

 tion on the national monuments. 



One of these new monuments, Casa Grande, originally had 

 the status of a park, as has been mentioned above. The reason 

 for making the change cannot be better explained than by 

 quoting from the report of the Director of the National Park 

 Service for 1918, as follows : 



When the National Park Service was organized we had 17 

 national parks and 21 national monuments. We now have 16 

 national parks and 24. national monuments. The explanation 

 is that one of the national parks of 1916, Casa Grande ruin, 

 has been withdrawn from that classification and been made 

 a national monument, and two other national rnonuments have 

 been created. . . . The Casa Grande ruin had been reserved * 

 and became loosely classed with Hot Springs and Yellowstone 

 as a national park, notwithstanding that it possessed none 



* By an Executive Order of June 22, 1892, authorized by a clause 

 in the sundry civil act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. L., 961) which also 

 appropriated $2000 for the restoration of the ruin. A proclamation 

 by President Taft, Dec. 10, 1909 (36 Stat. L., 2504), correcting 

 Casa Grande's boundaries refers to it as a "reservation." 



