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[CITE: 16USC47e]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
           SUBCHAPTER VI--SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS
 
Sec. 47e. Purchase of private lands for park authorized

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire, by purchase 
when purchaseable \1\ at prices deemed by him reasonable--otherwise by 
condemnation under the provisions of sections 257 and 258 of title 40, 
on behalf of the United States under any fund or moneys available for 
such purpose, on July 9, 1937, except from the general fund of the 
Treasury, any of the following-described lands in the State of 
California now in private ownership, to wit: Section 25, lots 3, 4, 5, 
8, and 9, section 34, northeast quarter, southeast quarter of the 
northwest quarter, lots 1 to 10, inclusive, section 35, section 36, 
township 1 south, range 19 east; southeast quarter northwest quarter, 
east half southwest quarter, southeast quarter, lots 2, 3, and 4, 
section 30, section 31, township 1 south, range 20 east; sections 1, 2, 
and 3, east half section 10, sections 11 and 12, north half section 14, 
northeast quarter section 15, township 2 south, range 19 east; southeast 
quarter northwest quarter, east half southwest quarter, lots 3 to 7, 
inclusive, section 6, township 2 south, range 20 east, Mount Diablo 
meridian.
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    When title to the aforesaid privately owned lands has been vested in 
the United States, all of the lands described in this section shall be 
added to and become a part of the Yosemite National Park and shall be 
subject to all laws and regulations applicable thereto: Provided, That 
nothing in this section or section 47f of this title shall be construed 
to affect any valid existing rights.

(July 9, 1937, ch. 469, Secs. 1, 2, 50 Stat. 485, 486.)

                       References in Text

    Section 258 of title 40, referred to in text, has been omitted from 
the Code as superseded by rule 71A of the Federal Rules of Civil 
Procedure, set out in the Appendix to Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial 
Procedure.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 47f of this title.
