Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 445. Canyon De Chelly National Monument; establishment; boundaries
Statutory text
With the consent of the tribal council of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, the President of the United States is authorized to establish by presidential proclamation the Canyon De Chelly National Monument, within the Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, including the lands hereinafter described.
All lands in Del Muerto, De Chelly, and Monument Canyons, in the canyons tributary thereto, and the lands within one-half mile of the rims of the said canyons, situated in unsurveyed townships 4 and 5 north, range 7 west; townships 4, 5, and 6 north, range 8 west; townships 4 and 5 north, range 9 west; and in surveyed townships 4 and 5 north, range 6 west; townships 3, 6, and 7 north, range 7 west; township 6 north, range 9 west; and township 5 north, range 10 west; embracing about eighty-three thousand eight hundred and forty acres, all of the Navajo meridian, in Arizona.
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. 71–188 § 1 · 46 Stat. 1161
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 445
Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 188, § 1, 46 Stat. 1161
Source evidence
Code source credit
Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 188, § 1, 46 Stat. 1161
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1933—Act , redescribed lands referred to in second par.
Executive Documents
Establishment of Monument; Boundaries
Monument and boundaries established by Presidential Proc. No. 1945, , 47 Stat. 2448; Proc. No. 2036, , 47 Stat. 2562.
Credits
1931–1933 · 2 acts
- 1931Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 188, § 1, 46 Stat. 1161
- 1933Mar. 1, 1933, ch. 161, 47 Stat. 1419.
Show as published
(Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 188, § 1, 46 Stat. 1161; Mar. 1, 1933, ch. 161, 47 Stat. 1419.)