§ 361. — Establishment; supply of water; free baths for indigent; dedication to United States.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC361]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XL--HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 361. Establishment; supply of water; free baths for
indigent; dedication to United States
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to grant to hotels
having bathhouses attached, and to bathhouses situated in the Hot
Springs National Park, as well as in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas,
the right to install, maintain, and use, either in said bathhouses or in
connection with the rooms of said hotels or the bathhouses attached to
said hotels, as many bathtubs as in his discretion he may deem proper
and necessary for the public service and the amount of hot water will
justify. The superintendent shall provide and maintain a sufficient
number of free baths for the use of the indigent. All titles given or to
be given by the United States shall explicitly exclude the right to the
purchaser of the land, his heirs or assigns, from ever boring thereon
for hot water; and the Hot Springs, with the National Park and mountain
are dedicated to the United States, and shall remain forever free from
sale or alienation.
(Dec. 16, 1878, ch. 5, 20 Stat. 258; June 16, 1880, ch. 246, Sec. 3, 21
Stat. 289; Apr. 12, 1904, ch. 1249, 33 Stat. 173; May 23, 1906, ch.
2552, 34 Stat. 198, 199; Apr. 30, 1908, ch. 154, 35 Stat. 98; Mar. 4,
1921, ch. 161, Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 1407.)
Codification
Act Apr. 12, 1904 amended act Dec. 16, 1878, by striking out a
proviso thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a proviso which is the
source of the first sentence of this section. The proviso stricken out
limited the supply of water to hotels or bathhouses to not more than
enough for 40 bath tubs of the usual size to a single establishment.
A portion of act Dec. 16, 1878, made an appropriation for the
expenses of the Hot Springs Commission, and provided for the appointment
of a Board of Commissioners, conferring upon them the powers of the
Commissioners appointed under act Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 108, 19 Stat. 377,
to lay out, etc., the Hot Springs Reservation, and revived and continued
in force said act Mar. 3, 1877 to enable the Commissioners to perform
the acts and duties authorized by it. These and other earlier provisions
relating to the establishment and management of the reservation were
temporary and have been executed.
Provisions of act Dec. 16, 1878, relating to leases of ground,
bathhouses, etc., were omitted as temporary in nature and superseded by
sections 362 to 368 of this title.
There have also been omitted as temporary and executed a provision
of act Dec. 16, 1878 for the expenses of the free baths maintained for
the indigent and a provision for the disposition of fractions of lots
made by straightening, widening, or laying out streets.
The boundaries of the Hot Springs National Park have been affected
by act June 25, 1930, ch. 607, 46 Stat. 1915, which provided as follows:
``That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized in
his discretion to convey to the P. F. Connelly Paving Company, of Little
Rock, Arkansas, by the issuance of patent or other appropriate
instrument of conveyance, and at an appraised value to be approved by
said Secretary, that certain tract of land located within the Hot
Springs National Park, Garland County, Arkansas, described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the west boundary line of Hot Springs National
Park, Arkansas, said point being the most southerly corner of lot 32,
block 128, United States Hot Springs Reservation as surveyed, mapped,
and platted by the United States Hot Springs Commissioners; thence in a
southeasterly direction and at right angles to the boundary of Hot
Springs National Park aforesaid, a distance of fifty feet; thence in a
northeasterly direction and parallel with the aforementioned boundary
line, two hundred and ninety feet; thence in a northwesterly direction a
distance of fifty feet to the aforementioned boundary line; thence in a
southwesterly direction along said boundary line a distance of two
hundred and ninety feet to the point of beginning; and, upon the
transfer of title to said land to the said company, the same shall be,
and is hereby, eliminated from the said Hot Springs National Park.''
Change of Name
``Hot Springs National Park'' substituted in text for ``Hot Springs
Reservation'' pursuant to act Mar. 4, 1921.
