[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[S. Res. 160 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 160

 Recognizing the importance of Hot Springs National Park on the 175th 
      anniversary of the enactment of the Act that authorized the 
               establishment of Hot Springs Reservation.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 18, 2007

   Mrs. Lincoln (for herself and Mr. Pryor) submitted the following 
             resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Recognizing the importance of Hot Springs National Park on the 175th 
      anniversary of the enactment of the Act that authorized the 
               establishment of Hot Springs Reservation.

Whereas, in 1803, the 47 hot springs that eventually received protection under 
        the first section of the Act of April 20, 1832 (4 Stat. 505, chapter 70) 
        formally became the property of the United States as part of the 
        Louisiana Purchase;
Whereas, with the establishment of the Hot Springs Reservation, the concept in 
        the United States of setting aside a nationally significant place for 
        the future enjoyment of the citizens of the United States was first 
        carried out 175 years ago in Hot Springs, Arkansas;
Whereas the Hot Springs Reservation protected 47 hot springs in the area of Hot 
        Springs, Arkansas;
Whereas, in the first section of the Act of April 20, 1832 (4 Stat. 505, chapter 
        70), Congress required that ``the hot springs in said territory, 
        together with four sections of land, including said springs, as near the 
        centre thereof as may be, shall be reserved for the future disposal of 
        the United States, and shall not be entered, located, or appropriated, 
        for any other purpose whatever'';
Whereas the Hot Springs Reservation was the first protected area in the United 
        States;
Whereas the Act that authorized the establishment of the Hot Springs Reservation 
        was enacted before the establishment of the Department of the Interior 
        in 1849, and before the establishment of Yellowstone National Park as 
        the first national park of the United States in 1872;
Whereas, in 1921, the Hot Springs Reservation was renamed ``Hot Springs National 
        Park'' and became the 18th national park of the United States; and
Whereas the tradition of preservation and conservation that inspired the 
        development of the National Park System, which now includes 390 units, 
        began with the Act that authorized the establishment of the Hot Springs 
        Reservation: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That on 175th anniversary of the Act of Congress that 
authorized the establishment of the Hot Springs Reservation, the Senate 
recognizes the important contributions of the Hot Springs Reservation 
and the Hot Springs National Park to the history of conservation in the 
United States.
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