the United States Government

“ AN ACT
to set apart a certain tract of land lying near the head-waters of the Yellowstone River as a public park.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tract of land in the Territories of Montana and Wyoming, lying near the head-waters of the Yellowstone River, and described as follows, to wit, commencing at the junction of Gardiner's River with the Yellowstone River, and running east to the meridian passing ten miles to the eastward of the most eastern point of Yellowstone Lake ”

“ Approved March 1, 1872
(Ulysses S. Grant)
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