lOo THE NATIONAL £ARK SERVICE 



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Directs Secretary of the Interior to ascertain what portions of 

 Yosemite are not necessary for park purposes and to select location 

 for a road. 



1905 — ^Act of February 7, 1905 (33 Stat. L., 702) — An Act 

 To exclude from the Yosemite National Park, Cal- 

 ifornia, certain lands therein described, and to at- 

 tach and include the said lands in the Sierra Forest 

 .Reserve. 



That the tracts of land in the State of California . . . are 

 hereby ... set apart as reserved forest lands. . . . Provided that the 

 Secretary of the Interior may require the payment of such price 

 as he may deem proper for privileges on the land herein segregated 

 from the Yosemite National Park; . . . and the moneys received 

 from the privileges accorded . . . shall be paid into the Treasury 

 ... to be expended, under the direction of the Secretary, in the 

 management, improvement and protection of the forest lands herein 

 set aside . . . which shall hereafter be known as the "Yosemite 

 National Park." 



1905 — Act of March 3, 1905, of the California Legislature. 



Receded the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove to 

 the United States; recession to take effect from and after accept- 

 ance by the United States. 



1905 — Act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. L., 1286) — ^Joint 

 Resolution Accepting the recession by the State of 

 CaUfornia of the Yosemite Valley Grant and the 

 Mariposa Big Tree Grove in the Yosemite National 

 Park. 



Despite the wording of the above title, the bill as passed merely 

 carried an appropriation for the management, etc., of the Yosemite 

 National Park and said nothing about acceptance of a recession. 



1906 — ^Joint Resolution of June 11, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 831) — 

 Joint Resolution accepting the recession by the State of 

 California of the Yosemite Valley Grant and the 

 Mariposa Big Tree Grove, and including the same, 

 together with fractional sections 5 and 6, township 

 S south, range 22 east, Mount Diablo meridian, Cal- 

 ifornia, within the metes and bounds of the Yosemite 



