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[CITE: 16USC80a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
               SUBCHAPTER VIII--KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 80a. General Grant National Park abolished; lands added to 
        Kings Canyon National Park
        
    The General Grant National Park is abolished, and the west half of 
section 33, township 13 south, range 28 east, and west half of section 
4, all of section 8 and the northwest quarter of section 9, township 14 
south, range 28 east, Mount Diablo meridian, California, together with 
the lands formerly within the General Grant National Park, California, 
and particularly described as follows, to wit: All of sections 31 and 
32, township 13 south, range 28 east, and sections 5 and 6, township 14 
south, range 28 east, of the same meridian, are, subject to valid 
existing rights, added to and made a part of the Kings Canyon National 
Park and such lands shall be known as the General Grant grove section of 
the said park. The General Grant grove section of the Kings Canyon 
National Park may, by proclamation of the President, be extended to 
include the following described lands, to wit: Section 9, south half, 
section 10, southwest quarter, and that part of the east half south of 
Generals Highway; section 11, that part south of Generals Highway; 
section 13, that part south of Generals Highway; section 14, that part 
south of Generals Highway, section 15, east half, northwest quarter, and 
the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter, section 21, southeast 
quarter of the northeast quarter, and the east half of the southeast 
quarter; section 22, east half, east half of the northwest quarter, 
southwest quarter of the northwest quarter and southwest quarter; 
section 23; section 24, that part south of Generals Highway; sections 25 
and 26; section 27, east half, northwest quarter, and that part of the 
southwest quarter north and east of the crest of Redwood Mountain; 
section 34, that part east of the crest of Redwood Mountain; sections 35 
and 36, township 14 south, range 28 east; all of sections 1 and 2; 
section 3, that part east of the crest of Redwood Mountain; section 11, 
that part east and north of the crest of Redwood Mountain; all of 
section 12; section 13, that part north of the Sequoia National Park 
boundary, township 15 south, range 28 east, Mount Diablo meridian, which 
shall be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the 
said park. Such extension of the General Grant grove section of the said 
park shall not interfere with the movement of stock and vehicular 
traffic without charge, under general regulations to be prescribed by 
the Secretary of the Interior, to and from national forest lands on 
either side of the said park extension. The Kings Canyon National Park 
shall receive and use all moneys prior to or after March 4, 1940, 
appropriated for General Grant National Park.

(Mar. 4, 1940, ch. 40, Sec. 2, 54 Stat. 43.)


                         Nation's Christmas Tree

    Joint Res. Mar. 29, 1956, ch. 98, 70 Stat. 57, provided: ``That the 
General Grant tree, which is located in the Kings Canyon National Park, 
in Fresno County, California, and which was dedicated by the Federal 
Government in 1926 as the Nation's Christmas Tree, is hereby declared to 
be a national shrine in memory of the men and women of the Armed Forces 
who have served and fought and died to keep this Nation free and to 
preserve the spiritual, human, and civil rights which are the essence of 
our American heritage. The Secretary of the Interior, through the 
National Park Service, shall make appropriate provision for the 
perpetual care and maintenance of such shrine.
    ``Sec. 2. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to change the name of 
the General Grant tree.''


                   Adjustment of Boundaries and Rights

    Act June 5, 1942, ch. 333, Secs. 1, 2, 56 Stat. 310, authorized the 
Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundaries of privately owned 
lands in the General Grant grove section of Kings Canyon National Park 
in accordance with a survey made by the county surveyor of Tulare 
County, California; to amend existing patents or relinquish or grant 
parcels of land therein according to said survey; and to pay from 
departmental appropriations expenses of surveys and investigations 
necessary to carry out provisions of this act.
