 | 1881 - 210 pages
...the Yellowstone National Park was "reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasure ground, for the benefit and enjoyment of the people." The park contains many great geysers, thousands of hot springs, myriads of waterfalls, lakes,... | |
 | Thomson P. McElrath - 1880 - 166 pages
...met with general acceptance, and on March 1st, 1872, Congress passed an act dedicating and setting apart "as a public park or pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people " the "tract of land in the Territories of Montana and Wyoming, lying near the headwaters of... | |
 | 1893 - 1094 pages
...of said creek, south of Broad Brunch road and Blngden Mill road, and of such greater width north of said roads as the commissioners designated in this...perpetually dedicated and set apart as a public park and pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States, to be known by... | |
 | William Hardman - 1884 - 252 pages
...12,000 feet. In 1872 the Congress of the United States passed an Act setting apart this large tract as a public park or pleasure ground, " for the benefit and enjoyment of the people." This measure is a very remarkable example of the foresight of the Americans, for it was based... | |
 | Northern Pacific Railroad Company - 1885 - 74 pages
...the civilized world as the Yellowstone National Park, which the Congress of the United States has " dedicated and set apart as a public park, or pleasure ground, for the benefit and enjoyment of the people." A distinguished writer, speaking of the country embraced in the Park, says : "It is a region... | |
 | William C. Riley - 1890 - 170 pages
...reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people ; and all persons who shall locate, settle upon or occupy the same or any part thereof, except... | |
 | United States. Department of the Interior - 1890 - 786 pages
...from sale and the forests protected from destruction. Beyond the dedication of this " tract of land " as a " public park or pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment or the people," and placing the same nnder the control of the Secretary of the Interior and appropriating... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 1922 pages
...of said creek, south of Broad Branch road and Blagden Mill road and of such greater width north of said roads as the commissioners designated in this...secured, as hereinafter set out, and be perpetually Dedication. dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasure ground for thebenefit and enjoyment... | |
 | International Geological Congress - 1893 - 602 pages
...established.39 In the organic act of 1872, defining the park, Congress declared that the reservation was "dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people.'' The wisdom and foresight of those who at that time urged the withdrawal from settlement of... | |
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Rivers; thence east to the place of beginning, is hereby reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasure ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the... 
