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Senate Bill 781

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  • a National Park Service, and for other purposes,' as amended; PROVIDED, that the provisions of the Act approved June 10, 1920, known as the Federal Water Power Act, shall not apply to these parks; and PROVIDED FURTHER, that the minimum area to be administered and protected by the National Park Service shall be for the Shenandoah National Park area two hundred and fifty thousand acres, and for the Great Smoky National Park area one hundred and fifty thousand acres,'PROVIDED FURTHER, that no general development of either of these areas shall be undertaken until a major portion of the remainder in such area shall have been accepted by said secretary. "Section 4. The Secretary of the Interior may, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, employ the commission authorized by the Act approved February 21, 1925." WHEREAS, The Secretary of the Interior, acting under the provisions of said Act, has designated a boundary of land for park purposes, which includes an area described as follows: "Beginning at a point on the South of left bank of the Pigeon River in Cocke County, Tennessee, as shown on the standard topographic map of the Geological Survey known as the Mt. Guyot sheet, opposite Bluffton, and thence following the said south bank of the Pigeon River upstream to the mouth of Cataloochee Creek, in Haywood County, North Carolina; thence upstream along said Cataloochee Creek to the mouth of Little Cataloochee Creek, where the highway crosses said creek; thence in a southerly direction along this highway up the valley of Cataloochee Creek and Caldwell Fork to the end of said Highway; thence up said Caldwell Fork to its head on the boundary line between the counties of Haywood and Swain, in North Carolina, thence in a southerly direction along said county boundary line to Soco Bald, to corner of Jackson, Swain and Haywood counties; thence along county line to Balsam Gap, as shown on the Standard topographic map of the Geological Survey,
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