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in margin: Return this to R. U. Johnson Century Mag. Union Square California Legislature Thanks E illegible Introduced
by Mr. W. S. Melick from Pasadena favorably reported Assembly Concurrent Resolution. No. 2 INTRODUCED BY MR. W. S.
MELLICK, from Pasadena JANUARY 29, 1897. REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS FORESTRY. ASSEMBLY CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
No. 2, RELATIVE TO THE YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. WHEREAS, The Government of these United States owns and maintains as a
national park, under the general title of the Yosemite National Park, certain tracts of land within the boundary lines of
the State of California, comprising an area of about nine hundred thousand acres; and WHEREAS, The Government of the United
States, by special Act of Congress, approved on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, did cause to be made
to the State of California a deed in trust to certain specified sections of land designated in the trust deed as the Yosemite
Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove, covering an area of about thirty-four thousand five hundred acres, and situated as nearly
as may be near the center of the Yosemite National Park, which deed of trust was accepted by the Legislature of the State
of California by the passage of an Act, approved April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and WHEREAS, There is now
pending in the Congress of the United States a bill Which provides for the purchase by the Government of the United States
of the three toll roads leading from