§ 445. — Canyon De Chelly National Monument; 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: 16USC445]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LXI--NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS
Sec. 445. Canyon De Chelly National Monument; establishment;
boundaries
With the consent of the tribal council of the Navajo Tribe of
Indians, the President of the United States is authorized to establish
by presidential proclamation the Canyon De Chelly National Monument,
within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, including the lands
hereinafter described.
All lands in Del Muerto, De Chelly, and Monument Canyons, in the
canyons tributary thereto, and the lands within one-half mile of the
rims of the said canyons, situated in unsurveyed townships 4 and 5
north, range 7 west; townships 4, 5, and 6 north, range 8 west;
townships 4 and 5 north, range 9 west; and in surveyed townships 4 and 5
north, range 6 west; townships 3, 6, and 7 north, range 7 west; township
6 north, range 9 west; and township 5 north, range 10 west; embracing
about eighty-three thousand eight hundred and forty acres, all of the
Navajo meridian, in Arizona.
(Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 188, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 1161; Mar. 1, 1933, ch. 161,
47 Stat. 1419.)
Amendments
1933--Act Mar. 1, 1933, redescribed lands referred to in second par.
Establishment of Monument; Boundaries
Monument and boundaries established by Presidential Proc. No. 1945,
Apr. 1, 1931, 47 Stat. 2448; Proc. No. 2036, Mar. 3, 1933, 47 Stat.
2562.
