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authorize the Secretary of the Interior to secure for 

 the United States title to patented lands in the Yosem- 

 ite National Park, and for other purposes." 



Empowers the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture 

 to obtain for the United States title to patented lands within the 

 park by exchanging therefor timber or timber and lands within 

 the park and within the adjoining Sierra and Stanislaus National 

 Forests; also to obtain title in similar manner to patented lands 

 not exceeding 640 acres, in said forests, which lands when so ac- 

 quired shall become part of the Yosemite National Park and be 

 subject to provisions of act of October i, 1890 (26 Stat. L., 650). 



1914 — Act of May 13, 1914 (38 Stat. L., 376) — An Act To 

 consolidate certain forest lands in the Sierra National 

 Forest and Yosemite National Park, California. 



The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to exchange lands 

 lying in the Sierra National Forest for privately owned lands lying 

 in the Forest and in the Park; lands thus acquired lying in the 

 Forest to go to the Forest and those lying in the Park to go to the 

 Park. 



1914— Act of July 23, 1914 (38 Stat. L., 554)— An Act To 

 amend an act approved October i, 1890, entitled 

 "An Act to set apart certain tracts of land in the 

 State of California as forest reservations." 



For hotel purposes, etc., the Secretary of the Interior is author- 

 ized to grant leases for not to exceed twenty years on tracts not 

 to exceed twenty acres in extent, not more than ten such tracts to 

 be leased to any one person or corporation. Provision is also 

 made for appraisement at termination of lease and for mortgag- 

 ing of lessee's rights if desired. 



1916— Act of July I, 1916 (39 Stat. L., 262, 308)— An Act 

 Making appropriation for sundry civil expenses of 

 the Government for the fiscal year ending June 

 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for 

 other purposes. 



Authorization to Secretary of the Interior to accept patented lands 

 and rights of way over same or over other lands m Yosemite Park 

 donated for park purposes. 



