§ 48. — Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove reserved and made part of Yosemite National Park.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC48]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER VI--SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS
Sec. 48. Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove reserved
and made part of Yosemite National Park
The tracts of land embracing the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa
Big Tree Grove, described as the ``Cleft'' or ``Gorge'' in the granite
peak of the Sierra Nevada mountains, situated in the county of Mariposa,
in the State of California, and the headwaters of the Merced River, and
known as the Yosemite Valley, with its branches or spurs, in estimated
length fifteen miles, and in average width one mile back from the main
edge of the precipice, on each side of the valley, and the tracts
embracing what is known as the ``Mariposa Big Tree Grove'', not to
exceed the area of four sections, and to be taken in legal subdivisions
of one quarter section each, together with that part of fractional
sections 5 and 6, township 5 south, range 22 east, Mount Diablo
meridian, California, lying south of the South Fork of Merced River and
almost wholly between the Mariposa Big Tree Grove and the south boundary
of the Yosemite National Park, on June 11, 1906, are reserved and
withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the
United States and set apart as a national forest, subject to all the
limitations, conditions, and provisions of sections 61, 471c and 471d of
this title, as well as the limitations, conditions, and provisions of
section 46 of this title, and shall hereafter form a part of the
Yosemite National Park.
(June 30, 1864, ch. 184, Secs. 1, 2, 13 Stat. 325; June 11, 1906, No.
27, Sec. 1, 34 Stat. 831.)
