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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 152-MAR. 6, 1942 [CHAPTER 152] March 6, 1942 [H. R. 4386] [Public Law 480] Isle Royale Na- tional Park, Mich. Addition of lands. Post, p. 722. 16 U. S. C. §§408- 408b. Description. Proviso. Siskiwit Islands Bird Reservation. Submerged lands. Federally owned lands. Proviso. Aids to navigation. AN ACT To provide for the addition of certain lands to the Isle Royale National Park, in the State of Michigan, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subject to valid existing rights the following-described lands, in addition to the lands established as the Isle Royale National Park pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1514), are hereby made a part of the park: Passage Island, containing approximately one hundred and eighty- two acres, located in sections 3, 4, and 9, township 67 north, range 32 west, in Keweenaw County, Michigan: Provided, That the Secre- tary of the Treasury shall retain control and jurisdiction over the following portions of the Island for lighthouse and boathouse purposes: (a) All that part of Passage Island lying south of a true east and west line located four hundred and twenty-five feet true north of the center of the Passage Island Light containing approximately six and five-tenths acres. (b) Beginning at the center of Passage Island Light, thence north thirty-three degrees fifty-two minutes east three thousand five hundred and fifteen feet to a point from which this descrip- tion shall begin to measure, being the southwest corner of said boathouse site; thence north two hundred feet to a point being the northwest corner of said site; thence east one hundred and seventy-five feet more or less to the harbor shore; thence south- easterly following the harbor shore to a point on the shore being a point on the south boundary of the boathouse site; thence two hundred feet more or less west to the point of beginning, con- taining approximately seventy-eight one-hundredths acre. (c) A right-of-way between the sites described in the preced- ing subparagraphs, to be defined by the Secretary of the Treasury within a reasonable length of time after the approval of this Act. SEC. 2. The Siskiwit Islands Bird Reservation is hereby abolished and shall hereafter be a part of the Isle Royale National Park. SEC. 3. The boundaries of the Isle Royale National Park are hereby extended to include any submerged lands within four and one-half miles of the shore line of Isle Royale and the immediately surround- ing islands, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to acquire title by donation to any such lands not now owned by the United States, the title to be satisfactory to him. SEa. 4 . All federally owned lands within the boundaries of the Isle Royale National Park are hereby made a part of the park: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall retain control and jurisdic- tion, for lighthouse purposes, over Menagerie Island, located in town- ship 64 north, range 35 west, and an unsurveyed island known as Rock of Ages, situated in approximate sections 7 and 18, township 63 north, range 39 west, and also shall retain the right to maintain existing floating and shore aids to navigation and to establish and maintain additional aids to navigation within the established park area when so required by general navigation. Approved, March 6, 1942. [56 STAT.

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