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[CITE: 16USC256]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER XXVII--OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 256. Acceptance of land ceded by State of Washington; 
        assumption of jurisdiction
        
    The provisions of the act of the Legislature of the State of 
Washington, approved March 8, 1941 (Chapter 51 of the Laws of 1941 of 
the State of Washington), ceding to the United States exclusive 
jurisdiction over and within all the territory included on March 8, 
1941, in the tract of land in the State of Washington, set aside for the 
purposes of a national park and known as the Olympic National Park, are 
accepted. Subject to the reservations made by the State in the act of 
cession, the United States assumes sole and exclusive jurisdiction over 
such territory.

(Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 151, Sec. 1, 56 Stat. 135.)

                       References in Text

    Act of State of Washington ``approved March 8, 1941'', referred to 
in text, may be found in Rem. Rev. St., Sec. 8110-1 and Revised Code of 
Washington Annotated, Sec. 37.08.210.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 256b, 256c, 256i of this 
title.
