Volume 77 · 474
Public Law 88–235
To revise the boundaries of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, and for other purposes.
Approved December 23, 1963
Statutory text
AN ACT
To revise the boundaries of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the boundaries
Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.
of Mesa Verde National Park are hereby revised to include the following described lands which, subject to valid existing rights, shall be administered as a part of the park in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes,” approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), as amended and supplemented (16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.):
new mexico principal meridian, colorado
Township 36 North, Range 14 West
Section 29:
All portions of the south half and the southeast quarter northwest quarter lying south and west of the right-of-way of United States Highway 160.
Section 32:
Those portions of the section lying south and west of the right-of-way of United States Highway 160, except the north entrance road to the park, the southeast quarter southwest quarter, and the southeast quarter northeast quarter southwest quarter.
Section 33:
That portion of the northwest quarter northwest quarter, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point on the west line of section 33 which is 456.5 feet south of the northwest corner of section 33, thence running south along the west line of section 33 for a distance of 373.0 feet, thence running east for a distance of 516.8 feet, thence running north for a distance of 132.7 feet, thence running north 65 degrees 06 minutes west for a distance of 570.0 feet along the south-westerly right-of-way of Highway 160 to the point of beginning.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Interior may acquire by purchase, with donated or appropriated funds, lands and interests in lands within the boundaries of Mesa Verde National Park as revised by section 1 of this Act.
Sec. 3.
There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums, but not more than $125,000, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Approved December 23, 1963.