Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 408e. Addition of lands; Passage Island
Statutory text
Subject to valid existing rights the following-described lands, in addition to the lands established as the Isle Royale National Park pursuant to sections 408 to 408b of this title, are made a part of the park:
Passage Island, containing approximately one hundred and eighty-two acres, located in sections 3, 4, and 9, township 67 north, range 32 west, in Keweenaw County, Michigan: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy shall retain control and jurisdiction over the following portions of the Island for lighthouse and boathouse purposes:
All that part of Passage Island lying south of a true east and west line located four hundred and twenty-five feet true north of the center of the Passage Island Light containing approximately six and five-tenths acres.
Beginning at the center of Passage Island Light, thence north thirty-three degrees fifty-two minutes east three thousand five hundred and fifteen feet to a point from which this description shall begin to measure, being the southwest corner of said boathouse site; thence north two hundred feet to a point being the northwest corner of said site; thence east one hundred and seventy-five feet more or less to the harbor shore; thence southeasterly following the harbor shore to a point on the shore being a point on the south boundary of the boathouse site; thence two hundred feet more or less west to the point of beginning, containing approximately seventy-eight one-hundredths acre.
A right-of-way between the sites described in the preceding subparagraphs, to be defined by the Secretary of the Navy within a reasonable length of time after .
Gull Islands, containing approximately six acres, located in section 19, township 68 north, range 31 west, in Keweenaw County, Michigan.
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.
Pub. L. 77–152 § 1 · 56 Stat. 138
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 408e
Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 152, § 1, 56 Stat. 138
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 152, § 1, 56 Stat. 138Pub. L. 94–567 § 4(a)(1) · 90 Stat. 2692
Amended · 16 U.S.C. § 408e
Pub. L. 94–567 designated existing provisions as par. (a)
Redesignated · 16 U.S.C. § 408e
Pub. L. 94–567 redesignated subpars. (a) to (c) as (1) to (3), respectively
Added · 16 U.S.C. § 408e
Pub. L. 94–567 added par. (b)
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 94–567 designated existing provisions as par. (a), redesignated subpars. (a) to (c) as (1) to (3), respectively, and added par. (b).Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) Insert the letter “(a)” before the second paragraph of the first section, redesignate subparagraphs (a), (b), and (c) of that paragraph as “(1)”, “(2)”, “(3)”, respectively, and add to that section the following new paragraph: “(b) Gull Islands, containing approximately six acres, located in section 19 township 68 north, range 31 west, in Keweenaw County, Michigan.”.
3 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments1942–1976 · 2 rounds
1976
Pub. L. 94–567 designated existing provisions as par. (a), redesignated subpars. (a) to (c) as (1) to (3), respectively, and added par. (b).
1942
Act , substituted “Secretary of the Navy” for “Secretary of the Treasury”.
Credits
1942–1976 · 3 acts
- 1942Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 152, § 1, 56 Stat. 138
- 1942July 27, 1942, ch. 526, 56 Stat. 722
- 1976Pub. L. 94–567, § 4(a)(1), , 90 Stat. 2694.
Show as published
(Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 152, § 1, 56 Stat. 138; July 27, 1942, ch. 526, 56 Stat. 722; Pub. L. 94–567, § 4(a)(1), , 90 Stat. 2694.)