16 U.S.C. § 361 | Establishment; supply of water; free baths for indigent; dedication to United States

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to grant to hotels having bathhouses attached, and to bathhouses situated in the Hot Springs National Park, as well as in the city of Hot Springs, Arkansas, the right to install, maintain, and use, either in said bathhouses or in connection with the rooms of said hotels or the bathhouses attached to said hotels, as many bathtubs as in his discretion he may deem proper and necessary for the public service and the amount of hot water will justify. The superintendent shall provide and maintain a sufficient number of free baths for the use of the indigent. All titles given or to be given by the United States shall explicitly exclude the right to the purchaser of the land, his heirs or assigns, from ever boring thereon for hot water; and the Hot Springs, with the National Park and mountain are dedicated to the United States, and shall remain forever free from sale or alienation.

Dec. 16, 1878, ch. 5 20 Stat. 258 June 16, 1880, ch. 246, § 3 21 Stat. 289 Apr. 12, 1904, ch. 1249 33 Stat. 173 May 23, 1906, ch. 2552 34 Stat. 198 Apr. 30, 1908, ch. 154 35 Stat. 98 Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 161, § 1 41 Stat. 1407(, ; , ; , ; , , 199; , ; , .)

Editorial Notes

Codification

Apr. 12, 1904Dec. 16, 1878Act amended act , by striking out a proviso thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a proviso which is the source of the first sentence of this section. The proviso stricken out limited the supply of water to hotels or bathhouses to not more than enough for 40 bath tubs of the usual size to a single establishment.

Dec. 16, 1878act Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 108 19 Stat. 377Mar. 3, 1877A portion of act , made an appropriation for the expenses of the Hot Springs Commission, and provided for the appointment of a Board of Commissioners, conferring upon them the powers of the Commissioners appointed under , , to lay out, etc., the Hot Springs Reservation, and revived and continued in force said act to enable the Commissioners to perform the acts and duties authorized by it. These and other earlier provisions relating to the establishment and management of the reservation were temporary and have been executed.

Dec. 16, 1878Provisions of act , relating to leases of ground, bathhouses, etc., were omitted as temporary in nature and superseded by sections 362 to 368 of this title.

Dec. 16, 1878There have also been omitted as temporary and executed a provision of act for the expenses of the free baths maintained for the indigent and a provision for the disposition of fractions of lots made by straightening, widening, or laying out streets.

act June 25, 1930, ch. 607 46 Stat. 1915

“That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized in his discretion to convey to the P. F. Connelly Paving Company, of Little Rock, Arkansas, by the issuance of patent or other appropriate instrument of conveyance, and at an appraised value to be approved by said Secretary, that certain tract of land located within the Hot Springs National Park, Garland County, Arkansas, described as follows: Beginning at a point on the west boundary line of Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, said point being the most southerly corner of lot 32, block 128, United States Hot Springs Reservation as surveyed, mapped, and platted by the United States Hot Springs Commissioners; thence in a southeasterly direction and at right angles to the boundary of Hot Springs National Park aforesaid, a distance of fifty feet; thence in a northeasterly direction and parallel with the aforementioned boundary line, two hundred and ninety feet; thence in a northwesterly direction a distance of fifty feet to the aforementioned boundary line; thence in a southwesterly direction along said boundary line a distance of two hundred and ninety feet to the point of beginning; and, upon the transfer of title to said land to the said company, the same shall be, and is hereby, eliminated from the said Hot Springs National Park.”

The boundaries of the Hot Springs National Park have been affected by , , which provided as follows:

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Mar. 4, 1921“Hot Springs National Park” substituted in text for “Hot Springs Reservation” pursuant to act .