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Bail.

Pay of commissioner.

Fees, costs, and expenses.

Deposit of collections.

Notice of

acceptance of jurisdiction.

Olympic

National Park,
Wash.
Exchange
of lands.

Court for the Western District of Washington, and certify a transcript of the record of his proceedings and the testimony in such case to the said district court, which court shall have jurisdiction of the case. The park commissioner shall have authority to grant bail in all cases according to the laws of the United States. (16 U.S.C. sec. 256e.)

SEC. 7. The park commissioner shall be paid an annual salary as appropriated for by Congress. (16 U.S.C. sec. 256f.)

SEC. 8. All fees, costs, and expenses arising in cases under this Act and properly chargeable to the United States shall be certified, approved, and paid as are like fees, costs, and expenses in the courts of the United States. (16 U.S.C. sec. 256g.)

SEC. 9. All fees, fines, costs, and expenses imposed and collected shall be deposited by the commissioner, or by the marshal of the United States collecting the same, with the Iclerk of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. (16 U.S.C. sec. 256h.)

SEC. 10. The Secretary of the Interior shall notify in writing the Governor of the State of Washington of the passage and approval of this Act, and of the fact that the United States assumes police jurisdiction over the park. Upon the acceptance by the Secretary of the Interior of further cessions of jurisdiction over lands now or hereafter included in the Olympic National Park, the provisions of sections 2 to 9, inclusive, shall apply to such lands. (16 U.S.C. sec. 256i.)

An Act To authorize the exchange of lands not in Federal ownership within the Olympic National Park, Washington, for national forest lands in the State of Washington, approved December 22, 1942 (56 Stat. 1070)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That title to State, county, and private lands situated north of the line between townships 27 and 28 north, Willamette base and meridian, Washington, and within the boundaries of the Olympic National Park as now or hereafter established by proclamation of the President of the United States, shall be subject to acceptance under the provisions of the Act approved March 20, 1922 (42 Stat. 465; 16 U.S.C. 485), and such lands when vested in the ownership of the United States shall be a part of the Olympic National Park subject to all laws and regulations applicable thereto. (16 U.S.C. sec. 251a.)

17. Platt National Park

Addition of lands to park.....................Excerpt from Act of June 18, 1940

Excerpt from "An Act Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for other purposes," approved June 18, 1940 (54 Stat. 406, 447)

Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement, *** and including not exceeding $3,500 for the purchase of land.1

1 Pursuant to this provision, 63.75 acres of land were acquired and added to

the park.

See Solicitor's opinion (M.32041) of Feb. 4, 1943.

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Addition to park authorized-lands to be acquired by exchange.. ...........Act of December 21, 1943 84

An Act To authorize the acquisition by exchange of certain lands for addition to the Sequoia National Park, approved December 21, 1943 (57 Stat. 606)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to accept title to lands and interests in lands near the entrance to the Sequoia National Park, subject to existing easements for public highways and public utilities, within the following described tracts:

Tract A. A portion of tract 37, township 17 south, range 29 east, Mount Diablo meridian, Tulare County, California, comprising approximately two acres.

Tract B. A portion of the east half of the northeast quarter of section 4, township 17 south, range 29 east, Mount Diablo meridian, Tulare County, California, comprising approximately thirty-eight acres.

Tract C. A portion of the south half of tract 37, township 17 south, range 29 east, Mount Diablo meridian, Tulare County, California, comprising approximately sixty onehundredths acre.

The owners of the lands to be conveyed to the United States, before any exchange is effective, shall furnish to the Secretary of the Interior evidence satisfactory to him of title to such lands. Such property shall become a part of the Sequoia National Park upon the acceptance of title thereto by the Secretary, and shall thereafter be subject to all laws and regulations applicable to the park. (16 U.S.C. sec. 45a-1.)

SEC. 2. That in exchange for the conveyance to the United States of tract A, as provided in section 1 of this Act, the Secretary is authorized, in his discretion, to patent to the owner of tract A, subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary may deem necessary, certain lands of approximately equal value described as follows:

Tract D. A portion of the southeast quarter of section 33, township 16 south, range 29 east, Mount Diablo meridian, Tulare County, California, comprising approximately two and fifty one-hundredths acres.

In exchange for the conveyance to the United States of tracts B and C, as provided in section 1 of this Act, the Secretary is authorized to patent, in a similar manner, to the owner of tracts B and C certain lands of approximately equal value described as follows:

Tract E. The southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 4, which shall be subject to section 24 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C., sec. 818); the south half of the northeast quarter of section 5; and approximately

II. NATIONAL PARKS - SEQUOIA

sixty-eight acres of the north half of the southeast quarter of section 5, which shall not include the surveyed two-hundred-foot strip as shown on map "D" of exhibit "K", entitled "Detailed Map of Kaweah Project of the Southern California Edison Company, Ltd.", and filed in the office of the Federal Power Commission on December 12, 1923; all of said lands in tract E being situated in township 17 south, range 29 east, Mount Diablo meridian, comprising approximately one hundred and eighty-eight acres. (16 U.S.C. sec. 45a-2.)

SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter or affect in any manner the provisions, or extend the term, of the permit heretofore granted to the Southern California Edison Company and predecessors thereof for the use of lands in the Sequoia National Park for electric power development purposes, or to relieve the company of any financial or other obligation under said permit, or under agreements or orders relating or supplementary thereto. (16 U.S.C. sec. 45a-1 note.)

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Jurisdiction, State cession of 1928 authorized to be accepted.....

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...Act of August 19, 1937 Addition to park of certain lands of the Front Royal Quartermaster Depot Military Reservation..... ..Act of June 13, 1939 89 Jurisdiction, State Act to provide for the respective jurisdictions of the United States and the Commonwealth of Virginia in the park.......... .......State Act of April 1, 1940

Jurisdiction, State Act of April 1, 1940 amended and reenacted..
.State Act of April 4, 1942
Jurisdiction, amend section 1 of the Act of August 19, 1937......
Act of June 5, 1942
Shenandoah Recreational Demonstration Project, addition to park........
.Excerpt from Act of June 6, 1942

Shenandoah
National
Park, Va.

Police jurisdiction assumed by United States.

Exceptions.

Service of process, suits, etc., arising outside.

State tax powers. Franchise.

Gasoline, etc., tax.

Provisions applicable to future conveyances.

Application

of laws.

Fugitives from justice.

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An Act To direct the Secretary of the Interior to notify the State of Virginia that the United States assumes police jurisdiction over the lands embraced within the Shenandoah National Park, and for other purposes, approved August 19, 1937 (50 Stat. 700) 1

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, directed to give notice to the State of Virginia through its Governor, as contemplated by the Act of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia approved March 28, 1928, that the United States assumes police jurisdiction over lands lying in the State of Virginia and included within the Shenandoah National Park, title to and exclusive jurisdiction over said lands having been conveyed and ceded under and by authority of said Act and accepted by the Secretary of the Interior, saving, however, to the State of Virginia the right to serve civil or criminal process within the limits of the aforesaid park in suits or prosecutions for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed in said State outside of said park; and saving further to the said State the right to tax persons and corporations, their franchises and property on the lands included in said park; and saving also to the persons residing in said park now, or hereafter, the right to vote at all elections held within the county or counties in which said park is situated; and saving further to the said State the right to tax sales of gasoline and other motor vehicle fuels and oil for use in motor vehicles. The Secretary is further directed to give like notice as to lands hereafter conveyed to the United States under like authority at such time or times as he shall determine to be consistent with the interests of the United States. All the laws applicable to places under sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States shall have force and effect in said park. All fugitives from justice taking

1 Section 1 of this Act was amended by the Act of June 5, 1942 (56 Stat. 321), page 95,

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