Cañon City record., 1906-04-19
HOUSE BILL NO. 4546

A Dill CeulnS 10 tne Slty Oh canon
City, Colorado, Certain Lands For
Park Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem-
bled That there is hereby granted
to the City of Canon City. municipal
corporation in the county of Fremont
and State of Colorado, all lands now
belonging to the United States of
America located in sections numbered
twenty-one, twenty-five. twenty-three,
twenty-four, twenty-five twenty-six.
twenty-seven, and twenty-eight. in
township numbered eighteen south,
range numbered seventy-one west of
the sixth principal meridian. said
lands being located along and on
either side of the Arkansas River in
said State, and containing thereon a
certain canon designated as the Royal
Gorge; the said lands to be held by
the said city solely for park purposes
and for the use and benefit of the pub
lie, without other restriction than
such as may be necessary to protect
the said premises from trespasses and
injury. And said lands and all of
them are hereby withdrawn from To-
cation and entry, under the laws of
the United States of America
Sec. 2. That the common council
of the said city of Canon City shall
have and is hereby granted full power
and authority to control, protect, and
preserve said lands so removed from
entry and ceded, and the water
nd bar nd fnr
the purpose aforesaid to make such
rules and regulations preventing tres
pass, DETACHMENT of natural scenery,
or any preventable injury to the said
canon as may be necessary or proper
in the premises and the said city
council shall further have power and
authority to locate and maintain
through itself. or grant the right to
SO locate and maintain to others rail-
ways, wagon roads. bitches, canals,
and other improvements, and also to
permit on said ceded premises the
erection of all such buildings or struc-
lures as may be necessary or proper
to carry out the purpose and intent
of this Act
Sec 3. That when and SO soon as
any present appropriations or loca-
tions, or any inchoate or incomplete
appropriations, or locations of any Of
the said premises, under any OF the
land laws of the United States, shall
lapse, become forfeited, or abandoned.
the premises covered by such locations
shall at once, and without further ac-
ton, fall under and become subject
to the operation of this Act, and shall
be ceded to and become the property
of the city of Canon City for the uses
herein set forth.
Sec. 4. That the grant and cession
hereby made is to the said city of
Canon City alone, and upon any at
tempt by the said city of Canon City
to ALLEVIATE or cucumber the said
premises or any portion thereof, or
should said city cease to care Tor said
park for period of three years or
more, the title thereto and to all the
said lands shall at once revert to and
revest in the United States of Ameri-
ca and the city of Canon City shall
further, and within one year from the
date hereof, mark and define the
boundaries of the said lands by per-
manent and substantial monuments
Sec. B. That the said city of Canon
City shall further, and within six
months after the marking of said
premises, file in the United States
land Office at Pueblo, Colorado. proof
OF the said marking and determine
tion of the boundaries of said prem
ises as herein above set forth, and the
formal acceptance by the said city of
tine grant herein evidenced, under the
conditions herein set forth and there
upon patent shall issue to the said
described. subject, however, to the
city Of Canon City for the lands above
herein stated reservations, limita-
tions, and conditions.
Sec. 6. That the right to amend or
repeal this Act at any time is hereby
reserved. and upon such repeal the