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LegalText 16 U.S.C. § 51 Yosemite National Park; exchange of privately owned lands in park us united_states_code code_section 16 CONSERVATION 1 NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES 51 16 U.S.C. § 51 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc16@119-100.zip /us/usc/t16/s51 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-16/usc16.xml ce12c318277610cfb7b4f6ddbd7e4c65e91d1ca0df5acdf9a83806d596a6b42d 7be8950da5a93cac7c98e4576ce00340f2aba5e8e46d29915382c203c421d503 96a2ddb7b974a8f070ce10ad0b0f68df956a5146854da40dba5f40ec897aef4e 2026-07-04 official
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16 U.S.C. § 51 - Yosemite National Park; exchange of privately owned lands in park

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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, § 1, 37 Stat. 80; Apr. 16, 1914, ch. 58, 38 Stat. 345.)