§ 47. Additional lands excluded from Yosemite National Park and added to Sierra National Forest
That portion of the Yosemite National Park lying between the boundary line described in section
46 of this title and the line next herein described is excluded from said park and the said portion so described added to and made a part of the Sierra National Forest, to wit: Beginning at the point on the line between sections
35 and
36, township 4 south, range 21 east, where same intersects the middle of the channel of the South Fork of the Merced River; thence north on section line to the southwest corner of section
25; thence west on section lines to the southwest corner of section
28; thence north on section line to the northwest corner of section
28; thence west on section line to the quarter-section corner between sections
20 and
29; thence north through the middle of section
20 to the center thereof; thence east through the middle of section
20 to the quarter-section corner between sections
20 and
21; thence north on section line to the quarter-section corner between sections
16 and
17; thence west through middle of section
17 to the center thereof; thence north through the middle of sections
17,
8, and
5 to the quarter-section corner of north boundary of section
5 on township boundary, all in township 4 south, range 21 east; thence north through the middle of section
32, township 3 south, range 21 east, to the center thereof; thence west through the middle of section
32, said township, and section
36, township 3 south, range 20 east, to the quarter-section corner between sections
35 and
36; thence north on section line to the quarter-section corner between sections
25 and
26; thence east through the middle of section
25 to the center thereof; thence north through the middle of sections
25 and
24 to the center of section
24; thence west through the middle of sections
24,
23, and
22 to the quarter-section corner between sections
21 and
22, township 3 south, range 20 east, on the present western boundary of the Yosemite National Park. The above-indicated portion of land so made a part of the Sierra National Forest shall be subject to all of the Acts of Congress with relation thereto. The Secretary of the Interior may require the payment of such price as he may deem proper for privileges on the land herein segregated from the Yosemite National Park and made a part of the Sierra National Forest accorded under section
79 of this title, relating to rights-of-way over certain parks, reservations, and other lands, and other sections concerning right-of-way over public lands. In the grant of any right-of-way for railway purposes across the lands placed under this measure within the Sierra National Forest it shall be stipulated that no logs or timber shall be hauled over the same without the consent of the Secretary of the Interior and under regulations to be promulgated by him.