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[CITE: 16USC161]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                  SUBCHAPTER XX--GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 161. Establishment; boundaries; trespassers; claims and 
        rights under land laws not affected; reclamation projects; 
        indemnity selections of lands
        
    The tract of land in the State of Montana particularly described by 
metes and bounds as follows, to wit: Commencing at a point on the 
international boundary between the United States and the Dominion of 
Canada at the middle of the Flathead River; thence following southerly 
along and with the middle of the Flathead River to its confluence with 
the Middle Fork of the Flathead River; thence following the north bank 
of said Middle Fork of the Flathead River to where it is crossed by the 
north boundary of the right-of-way of the Great Northern Railroad; 
thence following the said right-of-way to where it intersects the west 
boundary of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation; thence northerly along 
said west boundary to its intersection with the international boundary; 
thence along said international boundary to the place of beginning, is 
reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or disposal under the 
laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park 
or pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the 
United States under the name of ``The Glacier National Park.'' All 
persons who shall locate or settle upon or occupy the same, or any part 
thereof, except as hereinafter provided, shall be considered trespassers 
and removed therefrom. Nothing herein contained shall affect any valid 
claim, location, or entry existing under the land laws of the United 
States before May 11, 1910, or the rights of any such claimant, locator, 
or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his land. The United States 
Reclamation Service may enter upon and utilize for flowage or other 
purposes any area within said park which may be necessary for the 
development and maintenance of a Government reclamation project. No 
lands within the limits of Glacier National Park belonging to or claimed 
by any railroad or other corporation having or claiming before May 11, 
1910, the right of indemnity selection by virtue of any law or contract 
whatsoever shall be used as a basis for indemnity selection in any State 
or Territory whatsoever for any loss sustained by reason of the creation 
of Glacier National Park.

(May 11, 1910, ch. 226, Sec. 1, 36 Stat. 354; Jan. 26, 1931, ch. 47, 
Sec. 5, 46 Stat. 1043.)

                       References in Text

    The land laws of the United States, referred to in text, are 
classified generally to Title 43, Public Lands.
    Herein, referred to in text, means act May 11, 1910, ch. 226, 36 
Stat. 354, which is classified to this section and section 162 of this 
title.

                          Codification

    In sentence beginning ``Nothing herein contained'', the words 
``before May 11, 1910'' were inserted to give effect to the preceding 
word ``existing'', and in the last sentence the words ``having or 
claiming before May 11, 1910'' are a translation of the words ``now 
having or claiming'' of the original text.


                               Amendments

    1931--Act Jan. 26, 1931, struck out provision that right of way 
through the valleys of the North and Middle Forks of the Flathead River 
might be acquired within Glacier National Park for steam or electric 
railways.

                         Change of Name

    Reclamation Service, established in July 1902, changed to Bureau of 
Reclamation in June 1923.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 162 of this title.
