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[CITE: 16USC361]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                SUBCHAPTER XL--HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 361. Establishment; supply of water; free baths for 
        indigent; dedication to United States
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to grant to hotels 
having bathhouses attached, and to bathhouses situated in the Hot 
Springs National Park, as well as in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, 
the right to install, maintain, and use, either in said bathhouses or in 
connection with the rooms of said hotels or the bathhouses attached to 
said hotels, as many bathtubs as in his discretion he may deem proper 
and necessary for the public service and the amount of hot water will 
justify. The superintendent shall provide and maintain a sufficient 
number of free baths for the use of the indigent. All titles given or to 
be given by the United States shall explicitly exclude the right to the 
purchaser of the land, his heirs or assigns, from ever boring thereon 
for hot water; and the Hot Springs, with the National Park and mountain 
are dedicated to the United States, and shall remain forever free from 
sale or alienation.

(Dec. 16, 1878, ch. 5, 20 Stat. 258; June 16, 1880, ch. 246, Sec. 3, 21 
Stat. 289; Apr. 12, 1904, ch. 1249, 33 Stat. 173; May 23, 1906, ch. 
2552, 34 Stat. 198, 199; Apr. 30, 1908, ch. 154, 35 Stat. 98; Mar. 4, 
1921, ch. 161, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 1407.)

                          Codification

    Act Apr. 12, 1904 amended act Dec. 16, 1878, by striking out a 
proviso thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a proviso which is the 
source of the first sentence of this section. The proviso stricken out 
limited the supply of water to hotels or bathhouses to not more than 
enough for 40 bath tubs of the usual size to a single establishment.
    A portion of act Dec. 16, 1878, made an appropriation for the 
expenses of the Hot Springs Commission, and provided for the appointment 
of a Board of Commissioners, conferring upon them the powers of the 
Commissioners appointed under act Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 108, 19 Stat. 377, 
to lay out, etc., the Hot Springs Reservation, and revived and continued 
in force said act Mar. 3, 1877 to enable the Commissioners to perform 
the acts and duties authorized by it. These and other earlier provisions 
relating to the establishment and management of the reservation were 
temporary and have been executed.
    Provisions of act Dec. 16, 1878, relating to leases of ground, 
bathhouses, etc., were omitted as temporary in nature and superseded by 
sections 362 to 368 of this title.
    There have also been omitted as temporary and executed a provision 
of act Dec. 16, 1878 for the expenses of the free baths maintained for 
the indigent and a provision for the disposition of fractions of lots 
made by straightening, widening, or laying out streets.
    The boundaries of the Hot Springs National Park have been affected 
by act June 25, 1930, ch. 607, 46 Stat. 1915, which provided as follows: 
``That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized in 
his discretion to convey to the P. F. Connelly Paving Company, of Little 
Rock, Arkansas, by the issuance of patent or other appropriate 
instrument of conveyance, and at an appraised value to be approved by 
said Secretary, that certain tract of land located within the Hot 
Springs National Park, Garland County, Arkansas, described as follows: 
Beginning at a point on the west boundary line of Hot Springs National 
Park, Arkansas, said point being the most southerly corner of lot 32, 
block 128, United States Hot Springs Reservation as surveyed, mapped, 
and platted by the United States Hot Springs Commissioners; thence in a 
southeasterly direction and at right angles to the boundary of Hot 
Springs National Park aforesaid, a distance of fifty feet; thence in a 
northeasterly direction and parallel with the aforementioned boundary 
line, two hundred and ninety feet; thence in a northwesterly direction a 
distance of fifty feet to the aforementioned boundary line; thence in a 
southwesterly direction along said boundary line a distance of two 
hundred and ninety feet to the point of beginning; and, upon the 
transfer of title to said land to the said company, the same shall be, 
and is hereby, eliminated from the said Hot Springs National Park.''

                         Change of Name

    ``Hot Springs National Park'' substituted in text for ``Hot Springs 
Reservation'' pursuant to act Mar. 4, 1921.
