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B-40087 1 (1944-02-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadafv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: r A COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON 26 8 COPTRLJ.,ERGENRAC O F TENITDSAE COPPGENFEB 2g 1944 FILE &JlW rhe onorable, The1 Demtary of the nterior. .y acar ..r. 'ecrc-tary: I have your letter of -ebruary 11, 1S44, as followsI Under autho-ity of :cotion 4 of the ct of June 11, 2140 (54 tat. 2;9), the rocretzry of the Interior has ranted to the atern .and oZ herokee Indians the teneficial interest in the lands cm- traced -Athin the so-callzd cundary Trce tract 2Or a consideration oi ;e5,000 and excluded the lands iron the ireat Imoky Zountain Zational Par%. The act ;rovides that Dayent for the landu shall be made by the transfer to the credit of the Zund 'Natioanal ?ark Service, donationa' trom any xuads in the United LStates 2reasury to the credit of said zand, of a sum oqual to the lair varket value of such land, and that Ifuncs so transferred shall be vailable for national park and rcomaent uses, including the acquisition of lands ior inclusion in the Sreat ;roky :ountains ational ark.' The question has arisen as to whether the phraseoloay rincluding the acquisition of lands for inclusion in the Creat Zmoky P ountaina tational Park' limits the use of the funds tranforred to the credit of the Jational ?ark tarvice, insofar as lnd acquisition is crncerned, to the ourchase of lands for tbe Great 1:.cky ..)untains Eational !ark. a small norticn ci the funds is urently nueded to couplote paning acquaisitions in other areas initiated by the :lationa 9ark vervice under e-.dting acquisition authority. Your views as to the availability of the .Xns ;or land acqusi* tion 4y the :.atioual 2ark ervice in any national park or monument area whore the acguisition of land has prefiously ;;een aathorized by law are respectfully requested. Hection 3736, z.,viacd .tatutes, provides: 'To land shall be purchased on account of the inited $tates, except unier a law autharizin such purchase.I rhe appropriation fund entitled, ational srk ;crvico, donations, ,-as ctblished rursuant to the ..ct of June 5, 1920, 41 .tat. 917, rhich provides, so Oar rto here aterial, es Collars, a

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