Volume 46
Public Law 71–197
To provide for the extension of the boundary limits of the proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the establishment of which is authorized by the Act approved May 22, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 616).
Approved April 19, 1930
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for the extension of the boundary limits of the proposed Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the establishment of which is authorized by the Act approved May 22, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 616).
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the boundary
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, N. C. and Tenn.
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limits of the tract of land in the Great Smoky Mountains in the States of North Carolina and Tennessee, recommended by the Secretary of the Interior in his report of April 14, 1926, for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, be, and
Adjacent lands included.
the same are hereby, extended to include lands adjacent to the east boundary as defined in said report to a line approximately as follows:
From a point on top of the Balsam Mountains at the boundary
Description.
of Swain and Hayward Counties just north of Black Camp Gap; thence following east the top of the mountain range to Jonathan Knob and Hemphill Bald; thence along top of ridge through Camp Gap to Bent Knee Knob; thence following the main ridge to Cataloochee Creek to a point on the boundary of the area described in report of the Secretary of the Interior of April 14, 1926; and the
Acceptance thereof.
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lands within said boundary extension, or any part thereof, may be accepted on behalf of the United States in accordance with the provisions of the Act of May 22, 1926, for inclusion in the area to be known as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Approved, April 19, 1930.