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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§372a Acceptance of Jurisdiction Over Part of Park; Application of Laws

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER XL — HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK › § 372a

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The United States accepts a state grant giving it exclusive control of the public campground inside Hot Springs National Park. The land is in Garland County, Arkansas, created by an Arkansas law approved March 27, 1925. It is a rectangular parcel in township 2 south, range 19 west (parts of sections 27 and 33) measured 528 feet one way and 1,320 feet the other, as described. The same federal rules that apply to the Hot Springs Mountain Reservation (section 376) now apply to this land.

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Title 16, §372a

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The conditional cession and grant to the United States of exclusive jurisdiction over that part of the Hot Springs National Park known as the public camp ground and described as follows: Commencing at the stone marking at the northeast corner of the northeast quarter of section 33, township 2 south, range 19 west, thence east for five hundred and twenty-eight feet along the south line of the southwest quarter of section 27, township 2 south, range 19 west, thence north parallel with the reservation line for one thousand three hundred and twenty feet to the north line of said southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27, township 2 south, range 19 west, thence west for five hundred and twenty-eight feet along north line of said southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27, township 2 south, range 19 west to the east line of Hot Springs National Park, thence south along the line of Hot Springs National Park to the place of beginning, in the county of Garland, State of Arkansas, being a part of the Hot Springs National Park, made by act of the Legislature of the State of Arkansas, approved March 27, 1925, are accepted, and the provisions of section 376 of this title, relating to the Hot Springs Mountain Reservation, Arkansas, are extended to said land.

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section 376 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39, 62 Stat. 992, eff. Sept. 1, 1948. See section 636 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 372a

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110