§ 112. Control; regulations; prehistoric ruins

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1906

   Pub. L. 59–3607 § 2 · 34 Stat. 616

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 112

   (June 29, 1906, ch. 3607, § 2, 34 Stat. 617.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (June 29, 1906, ch. 3607, § 2, 34 Stat. 617.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. That said public park shall be known as the Mesa Verde Name. National Park, and shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to prescribe such rules Regulations. and regulations and establish such service as he may deem necessary for the care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide specifically for the preservation from injury or spoliation of the ruins and other works and relics of prehistoric or primitive man within said park: Provided, That all prehistoric ruins that are situated within Proviso. Prehistoric ruins. five miles of the boundaries of said park, as herein described, on Indian lands and not on lands alienated by patent from the ownership of the United States, are hereby placed under the custodianship of the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be administered by the same service that is established for the custodianship of the park.

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