An Act to authorize the establishment of the Virgin Islands National Park, and for other purposes
PL 84-925 (H.R.5299), enacted 08/02/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 924-AUG. 2, 1956 
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Appropriation. 
SEC. 4. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may 
be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act: Provided^ That 
the Secretary of the Interior may expend any funds made available 
by other Federal agencies or the Territory of Alaska to carry out the 
provisions of this Act. 
Approved August 2, 4956. 
Public Law 924 
August 2, 1956 
IS. 3556] 
Irrigation works. 
Movable prop-
erty. 
CHAPTER 884 
AN ACT 
To amend Public Law 551, chapter 616, Eighty-third Congress, second session. 
Be it enacted hy the SeTiate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^semhled^ That the Act of 
July 29, 1954 (68 Stat. 580, 43 U. S. C. 499a) is amended by adding 
thereto a new sentence reading as follows: "In order to encourage 
the assumption by irrigation districts and water users' organizations 
of the operation and maintenance of irrigation works, the Secretary 
is authorized to use appropriated funds available for the project in-
volved to acquire movable property for transfer at the time operation 
and maintenance is assumed under the terms and conditions herein-
before provided." 
Approved August 2, 1956. 
Public Law 925 
CHAPTER 885 
August 2, 1956 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 5299] 
rjQ authorize the estal)lishment of the Virgin Islands National Park, and for 
other purposes. 
v i r g i n Islands 
National Park. 
Administration. 
39 Stat. 535. 
Conditions and 
limitations. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That a portion of 
the Virgin Islands of the United States, containing outstanding scenic 
and other features of national significance, shall be established, as 
prescribed in section 2 hereof, as the "Virgin Islands National Park". 
The national park shall be administered and preserved by the Sec-
retary of the Interior in its natural condition for the public benefit and 
inspiration, in accordance with the laws governing the administration 
of the national parks (16 U. S. C. 1, and the following). 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, subject to 
the following conditions and limitations, to proceed in such manner as 
he shall find to be necessary in the public interest to consummate the 
establishment of the Virgin Islands National Park: 
(a) The acreage of the national park shall be limited to a total of 
not more than nine thousand five hundred acres of land area, such 
total to be comprised of not more than fifteen acres on the island of 
Saint Thomas, and not more than nine thousand four hundred and 
eighty-five additional acres to be comprised of portions of the island 
of Saint John and such small islands, rocks, and cays not in excess 
of five huridred acres in the general vicinity thereof as may be desirable 
for inclusion within the park; 
(b) Tentative exterior boundary lines, to include land not in excess 
of the aforesaid acreage limitations, may be selected for the park in 
order to establish the particular areas in which land may be acquired 
pursuant to this Act, such tentative boundaries to be selected and 
adjusted as may be necessary by the Secretary of the Interior; 
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(c) The Secretary, on behalf of the United States, is authorized 
to accept donations of real and personal property within the areas 
selected for the park until such time as the aforesaid total of nine thou-
sand five hundred acres shall have been acquired for the park by the 
United States, and he may also accept donations of funds for the pur-
poses of this Act; 
(d) Any Federal properties situated within the areas selected for 
the park, upon agreement by the particular agency administering 
such properties that such properties should be made available for the 
park, may be transferred without further authorization to the Secre-
tary by such agency for purposes of this Act; 
(e) Establishment of the Virgin Islands National Park, in its 
initial phase, shall be and is hereby declared to be accomplished and 
effective for purposes of administration when a minimum acreage of 
not less than five thousand acres in Federal ownership for purposes 
of this Act shall have been acquired by the United States in specific 
areas containing such acquired lands to be designated by the Secretary; 
and 
(f) Notice of the establishment of the park as authorized and pre-
scribed by this Act shall be published in the Federal Register. 
SEO. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated from Federal 
funds a sum not in excess of $60,000 for capital improvements for 
said Virgin Islands National Park, and a sum of not in excess of 
$30,000 annually for the administration of the Virgin Islands National 
Park. 
lApproved August 2, 1966. 
P u b l i c atlon in 
FR. 
^propriation. 
Public Law 926 
CHAPTER 886 
AN ACT 
August 2, 1956 
To provide that the United States hold in trust for the Pueblos of Zia and Jemez 
[H. R. 5712] 
a part of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant and a small area of public domain 
adjacent thereto. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That title to the 
following land and the improvements thereon owned by the United 
States of America, situated within Sandoval County in the State of 
New Mexico, is hereby declared to be in the United States of America 
in trust for the Pueblo of Zia, subject to valid existing rights: Begin-
ning at the southeast corner of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant as 
described on the plat of said grant approved by Clarence Pullin, sur-
veyor general of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 29, 1885, 
said corner being in section 8, township 15 north, range 1 east. New 
Mexico principal meridian; thence west along the south boundary of 
said grant approximately 5 miles, 42 chains; thence north approxi-
mately 1 mile, 20 chains; thence west 40 chains; thence north 3 miles; 
thence east 40 chains; thence north 7 miles to the northeast corner of 
unsurveyed section 17, township 17 north, range 1 west, New Mexico 
principal meridian; thence east approximately 5 miles, 68 chains to 
the east boundary of the Ojo del Espiritu Santo Grant as described 
on the plat of township 17 north, range 1 east, New Mexico principal 
meridian, approved in the Department of the Interior, General Land 
Office, Washington, District of Columbia, August 18,1930, which point 
is common to the west boundary of the Canon de San Diego Grant 
as described on the plat approved August 18, 1930; thence south 
approximately 5.25 chains along the common boundary of said two 
grants; thence continuing south along the west boundary of the Canon 
Pueblo of Zia. 
Trust title.