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1939—Chapter 257 523
Sec. 3. The commission is authorized, empowered and directed
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to acquire title in the name of the State of North Carolina to any lands authorized,
lands contemplated by the Act of Congress approved August
seventeenth, one thousand nine hundred thirty-seven (50 Stat.
669), entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of the
Cape Hatteras National Seashore in the State of North Carolina,
and for other purposes," which is, in words and figures, as follows
:
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Act of Congress
the United States of America in Congi'ess assembled. That when taibHshmento/
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title to all the lands, except those within the limits of established ^io^^ileSr-^^"
villages, within boundaries to be designated by the Secretary of the
Interior within the area of approximately one hundred square
miles on the islands of Chicamacomico, Ocracoke, Bodie, Roanoke,
and Colington, and the waters and the lands beneath the waters
adjacent thereto shall have been vested in the United States, said
area shall be, and is hereby, established, dedicated, and set apart
as a national seashore for the benefit and enjoyment of the peo-ple
and shall be known as the Cape Hatteras National Seashore:
Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appro-priation
of public monies any land within the aforesaid area, but
such lands shall be secured by the United States only by public
or private donation.
"Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to
accept donations of lands, interests in land, buildings, structures,
and other property, within the boundaries of said national sea-shore
as determined and fixed hereunder and donations of funds
for the purchase and maintenance thereof, the title and evidence
of title to lands acquired to be satisfactory to the Secretary of the
Interior : Provided, That he may acquire on behalf of the United
States any donated funds by purchase, when purchasable at prices
deemed by him reasonable, otherwise by condemnation under the
provisions of the Act of August first, one thousand eight hundred
eighty-eight, such tracts of land within the said national seashore
as may be necessary for the completion thereof.
"Sec. 3. The administration, protection, and development of
the aforesaid national seashore shall be exercised under the di-rection
of the Secretary of the Interior by the National Park
Service, subject to the provisions of the Act of August twenty-fifth,
one thousand nine hundred sixteen (39 Stat. 535), entitled
'An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other pur-poses,'
as amended: Provided, That except as hereinafter pro-vided
nothing herein shall be construed to divest the jurisdiction
of other agencies of the Government now exercised over Federal-owned
lands within the area of the said Cape Hatteras National
Seashore: Provided further. That the provisions of the Act of
June tenth, one thousand nine hundred twenty, known as the 'Fed-eral
Water Power Act,' shall not apply to this national seashore:
And provided further, That the legal residents of villages refer-red
to in Section one of this Act shall have the right to earn a
Secretary of In-terior
authorized
to accept dona-tions
of land, in-terests,
etc.
Supervision of
development and
administration of
national seashore.
Right of legal resi-dents
of village to
earn livelihood by
fishing.
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