Volume 50
Public Law 75–873
To make available for national-park purposes certain lands within the area of the proposed Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.
Approved August 28, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To make available for national-park purposes certain lands within the area of the proposed Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all lands
Mammoth Cave National Park, Ky.
Certain lands added.
purchased from fluids heretofore allocated and made available by Executive order, or otherwise, for the acquisition of lands for conservation or forestation purposes within the maximum boundaries of the Mammoth Cave National Park as authorized by the Act of May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 635), be, and the same are hereby, made a
part of the said park as fully as if originally acquired for that purpose and the proviso at the end of section 1 of said Act of May 25, 1926, shall not be construed so as to prohibit the acquisition
Acquisition other than by donation.
of lands in said area under funds made available as aforesaid.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his
Exclusion of certain caves authorized.
discretion, to exclude the Great Onyx Cave and the Crystal Cave, or either of them, from the maximum boundaries of the said park, and the area required for general development of the said park by section 1 of the Act of May 14, 1934 (48 Stat. 775), is hereby
modified accordingly.
Approved, August 28, 1937.