---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 361a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "361a"
heading: "Additions to park"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/361a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XL — Hot Springs National Park"
---

# §361a. Additions to park


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to accept the fee-simple title to a certain tract of land adjoining the Hot Springs National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), Arkansas, described as being the west half of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 27, township 2 south, range 19 west, fifth principal meridian, containing sixteen acres, more or less, situated in Garland County, [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Arkansas, donated to the United States of America for use in connection with Hot Springs National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3): Provided, That such land when accepted by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall be and remain a part of Hot Springs National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(June 5, 1924, ch. 264, 43 Stat. 423.)