§ 141. — 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: 16USC141]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XV--WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 141. Establishment; boundaries
There are reserved from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposal,
and set apart as a public park, all those certain tracts, pieces, or
parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of South Dakota and
within the boundaries particularly described as follows: Beginning at
the southeast corner of section 13, township 6 south, range 5 east,
Black Hills meridian, South Dakota; thence westerly to the southwest
corner of the southeast quarter section 16, said township; thence
northerly along the quarter-section lines to the northwest corner of the
northeast quarter of section 4, said township; thence easterly to the
southwest corner of section 34, township 5 south, range 5 east; thence
northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence easterly to
the northeast corner of section 31, township 5 south, range 6 east;
thence southerly along the section lines to the southeast corner of
section 7, township 6 south, range 6 east; thence westerly to the
southwest corner of said section; thence southerly to the southeast
corner of section 13, township 6 south, range 5 east, the place of
beginning. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any
valid rights acquired in connection with any of the lands embraced
within the limits of said park which shall be known as Wind Cave
National Park.
(Jan. 9, 1903, ch. 63, Secs. 1, 2, 32 Stat. 765.)
Codification
This section, with the exception of the last clause, which names the
park, was from section 1 of act Jan. 9, 1903. The last clause was taken
from section 2 of said act which section is also the source of section
142 of this title.
