Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1906-04-06
THE NEW NATIONAL PARK.
Congressman Martins Bill Designating
Battle Mountain Sanitarium Park.

AAo AOAAoWIlR lS d copy vi Uu0 OlI
which Congressman Martin recently
secured the passage of, and which is
now law, making a national reserve
adjoining Hot Springs:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Unit
ed States of America in Congress as
sembled: That there are hereby re-
served from settlement, entry, sale, or
other disposal all those certain tracts,
pieces, or parcels of land lying and
being situated in the State of South
Dakota and within the boundaries
particularly described as follows: Be-
ginning at the southwest corner of
section eighteen, township seven south,
range six east, Black Hills meridian:
thence east to the southeast corner of
said section eighteen; thence south to
the southwest corner of the northwest
quarter OF section twenty; thence cast
to the southeast corner of the north
east quarter of section twenty-one:
thence north to the northeast corner
OF the southeast quarter of section
nine; thence west to the center of
section seveu;- thence south to the
southwest corner of the southeast
quarter of section seven; thence north
to the northwest corner of section
eighteen; thence south to the place of
beginning, all in township seven south,
range six east, Black Hills meridian,
in Fall River county, South Dakota.
Provided, That nothing herein con-
tanned shall be construed to affect any
valid rights acquired in connection
with any Of the lands embraced within
the limits of said reserve
| Sec. 9. That said reserve shall be
known as the Battle Mountain Sani-
tarium Reserve, and shall be under the
exclusive control of the board of
managers of the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in con-
nection with the Battle Mountain
Sanitarium at Hot Springs, South
Dakota, whose duty it shall be to pre-
scribe such rules and regulations and
establish snch service as they may
deem necessary for the care and man
agement of the same.
Sec. 3. That in all cases Of unper-
fected bona fide claims lying within
the said boundaries of said reserve,
| which claims have been properly ini-
tiated prior to September second,
nineteen hundred and two, said claims
may be perfected upon compliance
with in requirements of the laws re-
specting settlement, residence, i'm
provements, and SO forth, in the same
manner in all respects as claims are
perfected to other government lands:
| Provided, That to the extent that the
lands within said reserve are held in
private ownership the Secretary of the
Interior is hereby authorized in his
discretion to exchange therefor public
lands of like area and value, which are
surveyed, vacant,'' unappropriated, not
| mineral, not timbered, and not requir-
ed for reservoir sites or other public
uses or purposes. The private owne RS
must, at their expense and by appro-
pirate Instruments of conveyance,
surrender to the government full and
unencumbered right and title to the
private lands included in any exchange
before patents are issued for or any
rights attached to the public lands in
cluded therein: and no charge of any
kind shall be made for issuing such
patents. Uupon completion of any
exchange the lands surrendered to the
government shall become part of
said reserve in a like manner as if they
had beeen public lands at the time of
the establishment of said reserve.
Nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to authorize the issuance of
any land scrip, and the state of South
Dakota is granted the privilege of
selecting from the public lands in said
state an equal quantity of land in
lieu of such portions of section sixteen
included within said reserve as have
not been sold or disposed of by said
state and are not covered by an upper.
fected bona tlde claim as above men
toned.
Sec. 4. That all persons who shall
uhlawfully intrude upon said reserve,
or who shall without permission ap-
propriate any object therein or COM
nit unauthorized injury or waste in
any form whatever upon the lands or
other public property therein, or who
shall violate any of the rules and
regulations prescribed hereunder, shall
upon conviction, be fined in sum not
more than one thousand dollars, or be
imprisoned for period not more then
twelve months, or shall suffer both
fine and imprisonment, in the discre-
ton of the court.