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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§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 Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The United States accepts Arkansas’s conditional transfer of full control over a part of Hot Springs National Park called the public campground. The area is described by specific boundary points and distances and lies in Garland County, Arkansas. That tract was made part of the park by an act of the Arkansas Legislature approved March 27, 1925. The rules in section 376 of this title that apply to the Hot Springs Mountain Reservation now also apply to this campground land.

Full Legal Text

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 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, relating to the Hot Springs Mountain Reservation, Arkansas, are extended to said land.

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References in Text

section 376 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39, 62 Stat. 992, eff.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

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60