Public Law 70–77

That the Secretary

Lafayette National Park, Me.

Acceptance authorized of lands, etc., donated for extension thereof.

of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to accept in behalf of the United States lands, easements, and buildings, as may be donated for the extension of the Lafayette National Park, lying within the bounds of Hancock County within which the park is situated, together with such islands in Knox County adjoining, as lie to the east and south of the main ship channel through Penobscot Bay, which complete the archipelago of which Mount Desert Island, whereon the park is situated, forms the dominant and largest unit.

Sec. 2.

That the area now within the Lafayette National Park,

Name changed to Acadia National Park.

together with such additions as may hereafter be made thereto, shall be known as the Acadia National Park, under which name the aforesaid national park shall be entitled to receive and to use all moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the Lafayette National Park: Provided, That the provisions of the Act of June 10, 1920,

Proviso.

Water Power Act not applicable.

Vol. 41, p. 1063.

entitled “An Act to create a Federal Power Commission, to provide for the improvement of navigation, the development of water power, the use of the public lands in relation thereto, and to repeal section 18of the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act, approved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes,” shall not apply to or extend to any lands now or hereafter included in said park.