§ 91. — Establishment; boundaries; trespassers.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC91]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XI--MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 91. Establishment; boundaries; trespassers
All those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being
in the State of Washington, and within the boundaries particularly
described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point three miles east of
the northeast corner of township numbered 17 north, of range 6 east of
the Willamette meridian; thence south through the central parts of
townships numbered 17, 16, and 15 north, of range 7 east of the
Willamette meridian, 18 miles more or less, subject to the proper
easterly or westerly offsets, to a point three miles east of the
northeast corner of township numbered 14 north, of range 6 east of the
Willamette meridian; thence east on the township line between townships
numbered 14 and 15 north, 18 miles more or less to a point 3 miles west
of the northeast corner of township 14 north, of range 10 east of the
Willamette meridian; thence northerly subject to the proper easterly or
westerly offsets, 18 miles more or less, to a point 3 miles west of the
northeast corner of township numbered 17 north of range 10 east of the
Willamette meridian (but in locating said easterly boundary, wherever
the summit of the Cascade Mountains is sharply and well defined, the
said line shall follow the said summit, where the said summit line bears
west of the easterly line as herein determined); thence westerly along
the township line between said townships numbered 17 and 18 to the place
of beginning, are dedicated and set apart as a public park to be known
and designated as the Mount Rainier National Park, for the benefit and
enjoyment of the people; and all persons who shall locate or settle upon
or occupy the same, or any part thereof, except as hereafter provided,
shall be considered trespassers and be removed therefrom.
(Mar. 2, 1899, ch. 377, Sec. 1, 30 Stat. 993.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 92, 108, 110c of this title.
