Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-09
FEDERAL PARK
NEEDS $4,000
Draft of Bill That Will Go
to Washington To-
morrow.

$4,000 will be asked for the Kilauea
| National Park, a draft of the bill fol
which will be forwarded to Washing.
ton on the Korea tomorrow.
Governor Frear declared this morn.
ing that he did not expect more than
$25 600 would be needed to acquire
, the land needed for the park. stating
that the remainder of the money APP
propriated would be used for the CON
struction of roads
The terms of the bill without the
survey description of the lands, is as
follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Unit
ed States of America in Congress AS
sembled, That the tracts of land in
the Territory of Hawaii hereinafter
described shall be perpetually dedi-
Gated and set apart as a public park
or pleasure ground for the benefit and
enjoyment of the people of the Unit
cd States. to be known as Kilauea
National Park. Provided. that the
parts thereof which are not included
within the public lands shall be Sc
cured and the Secretary of the Inte-
rior is hereby authorized and direct
ed to secure the same for this pur-
pose by purchase, condemnation or
otherwise, which sum is hereby ap-
propriated for this purpose out of the
money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated Said tracts of land are
described as follows:
Section 2. That said park shall be
under the control of the Secretary of
the Interior whose duty it shall be
as soon as practicable, to make and
publish such rules and regulations az
he may deem necessary or proper for
the care and management of the
same. Such regulations shall provide
for the preservation from injury of all
timber birds, mineral deposits and
natural curiosities or wonders within
said park, and their retention in their
natural condition as nearly as posi-
BILE. The Secretary may. in his dis
cretion grant leases, for terms net
exceeding twenty years, at such an,
nual rentals as he may determine, Of
parcels of land in said park of not
more than twenty acres in all to any
one person, corporation or company
for the erection and maintenance of
buildings for the accommodation of
visitors; but no such lease shall in
clude any of the objects of curiosity
or interest in said park. or exclude
the public from free and convenient
thereto, or convey either
expressly or by implication, any ex-
elusive privilege within the park ex-
cept upon the premises held there
under and for the time granted there
in: and every such lease shall re-
quire the lessee to observe and obey
each and every provision in any Act
of Congress, and every rule order
or regulation of the Secretary of the
Interior concerning the use, care
management or government of the
park Or any object or property there
in, under penalty of forfeiture of
such lease. The Secretary may, in
his discretion, grant to persons or
corporations now holding leases of
land in the park, upon the surrender
thereof, new leases hereunder, upon
the terms and stipulations contained
in their present leases, with such mo-
restrictions and reserva-
tons as he may prescribe. All of
the proceeds of said leases and 9th
err revenues that may be derived from
any source connected with the park
shall be expended under the direction
of the Secretary in the management
and protection of the same and the
construction of roads and paths there
in. The Secretary may also. in his
discretion. permit the erection and
maintenance of buildings in said park
for scientific purposes; and grant
railroad rights of way into or across
said park upon such terms and con-
ditions as he may deem power, He
shall cause to be made complete
survey and map of said park showing
its topography, roads and paths, nat
ural wonders and other matters OF
interest. and shall construct such ad-
ditional roads and paths as he may
deem desirable out of any available
moneys, for all of which purposes the
balance, If any, of said appropriation
of $4,000 not otherwise expended
shall be available, and in aid of which
purposes the Secretary of War, upon
the request of the Secretary of the
Interior. may make the necessary de-
tail of engineers.