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[CITE: 16USC51]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
           SUBCHAPTER VI--SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS
 
Sec. 51. Yosemite National Park; exchange of privately owned 
        lands in park
        
    The Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture, for 
the purpose of eliminating private holdings within the Yosemite National 
Park and to preserve intact timber along and adjoining the roads in the 
scenic portion of the park on patented lands, are empowered in their 
discretion to obtain and accept for the United States a complete title 
to any and all patented lands within the boundaries of said park by the 
exchange of timber or timber and lands within the Yosemite National Park 
and the Sierra and Stanislaus National Forests for such lands and the 
timber thereon within the park, necessary conveyances of park and 
national forest timber or timber and lands to be made by said 
secretaries, respectively. The secretaries of the said departments are 
authorized to acquire title in fee by the exchange of lands of the 
United States for patented lands not exceeding six hundred and forty 
acres in the Sierra and Stanislaus National Forests, adjacent and 
contiguous to the Yosemite National Park, and when such patented lands 
are thus acquired, said lands shall become a part of the Yosemite 
National Park and be subject to all the provisions of sections 55, 61, 
471c and 471d of this title.

(Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 74, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 80; Apr. 16, 1914, ch. 58, 38 
Stat. 345.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 52 of this title.
