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[CITE: 16USC21]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER V--YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 21. Establishment; boundaries; trespassers

    The tract of land in the States of Montana and Wyoming, lying near 
the headwaters 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 
point 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the place of beginning, is reserved and withdrawn from settlement, 
occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated 
and set apart as a public park or pleasuring 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 public park, except as 
provided in section 22 of this title, shall be considered trespassers 
and removed therefrom.

(R.S. Sec. 2474.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2474 derived from act Mar. 1, 1872, ch. 24, Sec. 1, 17 
Stat. 32.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 21b of this title.
