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[CITE: 16USC40]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER V--YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 40. Additions to park; entry under other acts

    The President of the United States is authorized, in his discretion, 
to add by Executive proclamation to Yellowstone National Park any or all 
of the lands within a certain territory or tract in township 9 south, 
ranges 7 and 8 east, Montana principal meridian, to wit: Beginning at a 
point on the north line of said Yellowstone National Park where said 
line crosses the divide between Reese Creek and Mol Heron Creek, thence 
northeasterly along said divide to the junction of said divide with the 
branch divide north and west of Reese Creek; thence along said branch 
divide in a northeasterly and easterly direction around the drainage of 
Reese Creek, to the Yellowstone River; thence southerly and 
southeasterly along the west bank of the Yellowstone River to the line 
marking the western limits of the town of Gardiner, Montana; thence 
south on said town limits line to the northern boundary of Yellowstone 
National Park; thence west along the north boundary of Yellowstone 
National Park to the point of beginning, which are unappropriated lands 
of the United States or which may be acquired by the United States under 
the provisions of sections 37 to 40 of this title, within the territory 
described in this section, subject, however, to all valid existing 
claims and to reservations such as are authorized by section 39 of this 
title; but, with the exception of valid existing claims, no land so 
added to Yellowstone National Park shall be subject to entry under the 
mining laws of the United States: Provided, That the Secretary of the 
Interior for such lands as are added to Yellowstone National Park may 
provide by rules and regulations for the management and use of the added 
lands as may in his discretion be necessary to accomplish the purposes 
of sections 37 to 40 of this title: And provided further, That the lands 
of the United States acquired by donation or purchase within the area 
described in section 37 of this title shall not be subject to location 
and entry under the mining laws of the United States nor the Act of June 
11, 1906, authorizing homestead entries in national forests.

(May 26, 1926, ch. 399, Sec. 6, 44 Stat. 656.)

                       References in Text

    The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are 
classified generally to Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining.
    Act of June 11, 1906, referred to in text, means act June 11, 1906, 
ch. 3074, 34 Stat. 233, which was classified to sections 506 to 508 and 
509 of this title, and was repealed by Pub. L. 87-869, Sec. 4, Oct. 23, 
1962, 76 Stat. 1157.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 37, 39 of this title.
