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munity centers for campers at Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone 

 Lake, and Grand Canyon, not to exceed $2,500 for fire lookout and 

 rest house on Mount Washburn, not to exceed $7,600 for the pur- 

 chase, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled pas- 

 senger-carrying vehicles, and including feed for buffalo and other 

 animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $350,000, of which amount 

 $25,000 shall be immediately available, to be expended by and under 

 the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That not 

 exceeding $2,000 may be expended for the removal of snow from 

 any of the roads for the purpose of opening them in advance of 

 the tourist season. 



Yosemite National Park, California: For administration, pro- 

 tection, maintenance, and improvement, including not exceeding 

 $3,000 for purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of horse- 

 drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of 

 the superintendent and employees in connection with general park 

 work, and not exceeding $15,000 for the completion of grading in 

 width not exceeding twenty feet the El Portal-Yosemite road, 

 $300,000. 



Zion National Park, Utah: for administration, protection, main- 

 tenance, and improvement, $10,000. 



Yellowstone 



1872 — Act of March i, 1872 (17 Stat. L., 32)— An Act To 

 set aside a certain tract of land lying near the head- 

 waters of the Yellowstone River as a public park. 



[Sec. i]. The tract of land in the Territories of Montana and 

 Wyoming, lying near the head-waters of the Yellowstone River and 

 described as follows, to wit, commencing at the junction of 

 Gardiner's River, with the Yellowstone River, and running east 

 to the meridian passing ten miles to the eastward of the most eastern 

 point of Yellowstone Lake; thence south along said meridian to 

 the parallel of latitude passing ten miles south of the most southern 

 point of Yellowstone Lake; thence west along said parallel to the 

 meridian passing fifteen miles west of the most western pomt of 

 Madison Lake; thence north along said meridian to the latitude of 

 the junction of the Yellowstone and Gardiner's Rivers; thence east 

 to the place of beginning, is reserved and withdrawn from settle- 

 ment, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and 

 dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasurmg-ground for 

 the benefit and enjoyment of the people; and all persons who locate, 

 or settle upon, or occupy any part of the land thus set apart as a pub- 

 lic park, except as provided in the following section, shall be con- 

 sidered 'trespassers and removed therefrom. 



Sec 2 Such public park shall be under the exclusive control 

 of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon 

 as practicable, to make and publish such regulations as he may 

 deem necessary or proper for the care and management of the same. 



