§ 111. — Establishment; boundaries.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC111]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XII--MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 111. Establishment; boundaries
There is reserved from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposal
and set apart as a public reservation, all those certain tracts, pieces
and parcels of land lying and being situated in the State of Colorado,
within the boundaries described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the north boundary of the Southern Ute
Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado where the north quarter
corner of unsurveyed fractional section 2, township 34 north, range 15
west, ``south of the Ute boundary'', intersects the same; thence south
to the south quarter corner of unsurveyed section 26, said township;
thence west to the southwest corner of unsurveyed section 25, township
34 north, range 16 west; thence north to the northwest corner of
unsurveyed fractional section 1 said township and range; thence west to
the southeast corner of fractional section 12, township 34 north, range
16 west, ``north of the Ute boundary''; thence north to the northwest
corner of section 19, township 35 north, range 15 west; thence east to
the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section 16, said
township; thence north to the northwest corner of the southeast quarter
of said section; thence east to the southwest corner of the northeast
quarter of section 13, said township; thence north to the northwest
corner of the northeast quarter of said section; thence east to the
southwest corner of section 7, township 35 north, range 14 west; thence
north to the northwest corner of said section; thence east to the
southwest corner of section 5, said township; thence north to the
northwest corner of said section; thence east to the northeast corner of
said section; thence south to the southeast corner of the northeast
quarter of said section; thence east to the northeast corner of the
southwest quarter of section 4, said township; thence south to the
northwest corner of the southeast quarter of section 16, said township;
thence east to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of said
section; thence south to the northwest corner of section 22, said
township; thence east to the northeast corner of said section; thence
south to the northwest corner of section 26, said township; thence east
along the north section line of section 26 to the east bank of the Rio
Mancos: thence in a southeasterly direction along the east bank of the
Rio Mancos to its intersection with the northern boundary line of the
Southern Ute Indian Reservation, thence west along said Indian
reservation boundary to its intersection with the range line between
ranges 14 and 15 west, the place of beginning.
Said park shall be known as Mesa Verde National Park.
(June 29, 1906, ch. 3607, Secs. 1, 2, 34 Stat. 616, 617; June 30, 1913,
ch. 4, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 83.)
Codification
Section is based on sections 1 and 2 of act June 29, 1906, and a
portion of section 1 of act June 30, 1913.
The first sentence to the colon is from a part of section 1 of act
June 29, 1906.
The second paragraph is from section 1 of act June 30, 1913. It
extended the park on the south and described the boundaries as thus
changed, thereby superseding the description contained in section 1 of
act June 29, 1906. Section 1 of act June 30, 1913, also recited that the
lands added to the park by its provisions were lands relinquished by
Indians pursuant to an agreement incorporated and ratified therein. The
agreement was one dated May 10, 1911, with the Wiminuche Band of
Southern Ute Indians.
The last sentence of this section is taken from section 2 of act
June 29, 1906, which is also the source of section 112 of this title.
