The daily progressive-miner., 1916-04-28
nT. MCKINLEY FOR
 NATIONAL PARK
DELEGATE wICKERSHAM IN. PRODUCES A BILL FOR
 THAT PURPOSE.

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 April IS, 1916. A Bill to estab-
 lish the Nit. Mckinley National
 Park, in the Territory of Alaska.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Con- gress assembled, That the tract of land in the Territory of Alaska particularly described by and in cluded within the metes and bounds to wit: Beginning at a point as shown on Plate III, reconnaissance map of the Mount Mckinley re- zion, Alaska, prepared in the Geo. logical Survey, edition of nineteen hundred and eleven, said point be- ing at the summit of a hill between two forks of the headwaters of the Toklat River. approximate latitude sixty-three. degrees forty-seven min- utes. longitude one hundred and fifty degrees twenty minutes: thence south six degrees twenty minutes west nineteen miles; thence south sixty-eight degrees west sixty miles; thence in a southeasterly di- rection approximately twenty-eight miles to the summit of Mount Rus sell; thence in a northeasterly dir ection approximately eighty-nine miles to a point twenty-five miles due south of point due east of the point of beginning; thence due north twenty-five miles to said point; thence due west twenty eight and one-half miles, to the point of beginning, is hereby re- served and withdrawn from settle ment, occupancy, or disposal under the laws of the United States, and said tract is dedicated and set apart as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the peo-' pie, under the name of the Mount Mckinley National Park.
 Sec. ?. That nothing herein con- tained shall affect any valid exist ing claim, location, or entry under the land laws of the United States, whether for homestead, mineral. right of way, or any other purpose whatsoever, or shall affect the rights of any such purpose what soever, or shall affect the rights of any such claimant, locator, or en- tryman to the full use and enjoy ment of his land.
 Sec. 3. That whenever consistent with the primary purposes of the park, the Act of February fifteenth. nineteen hundred and one, appli- cable to the location of rights of way in certain national parks and national forests for irrigation and other purposes, shall be and re- main applicable to the lands in- cluded within the park.
 Sec. 4 That the mineral-land laws of the United States are here by extended to the lands included within the park.
 Sec. 5. That the said park shall be under the executive control of the Secretary of the Interior, and 1t shall be the duty of the said executive authority, as soon as practicable to make and publish such rules and regulations not in- consistent with the laws of the United States as the said authority may deem necessary or proper for the ere, protection, management. and improvement of the same. the said regulations being primarily aimed at the freest use of the said park for recreation purposes by the public and for the preservation of animals, birds, and fish and for the preservation of the natural curiosities and scenic beauties there of.
 Sec. G. That the said park shall be, and is hereby, established as a game refuge, and no person shall kill any game in said park except under an order from the Secretary of the Interior for the protection of persons or to protect or prevent the extermination of other animals or birds: Provided, That prospectors and miners engaged in prospecting or mining in said park may take and kill therein so much game or birds as may be needed for their actual necessities when short of food; but in no case shall animals or birds be killed in said park for sale or removal therefrom, or want