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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection

§ 689. Tahquitz National Game Preserve

Statutory text

There is created within the San Bernardino National Forest in Riverside County, California, for the protection of game animals, and as the recognized breeding place therefor, the Tahquitz National Game Preserve, which shall include the following lands: Sections 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, and 35, township 3 south, range 3 east, San Bernardino meridian; sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, and 36, township 4 south, range 3 east, San Bernardino meridian; and sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 24, township 5 south, range 3 east, San Bernardino meridian; but the establishment of this reservation shall not interfere with any existing right or withdrawals made prior to : Provided, That all the land with 1 the exterior boundary of the aforesaid tract shall first become the property of the United States.

That where the Government survey has not been completed the aforesaid description shall be deemed to refer to and be determined by lines projected from the official survey.

Footnotes

  1. 1 So in original. Probably should be “within”.

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. Pub. L. 69–776 § 1 · 44 Stat. 889

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 689

    (July 3, 1926, ch. 776, § 1, 44 Stat. 889.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 3, 1926, ch. 776, § 1, 44 Stat. 889.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(July 3, 1926, ch. 776, § 1, 44 Stat. 889.)

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