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16 USC § 408e - Addition of lands; Passage Island

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identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s408e"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "16 USC § 408e - Addition of lands; Passage Island"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "408e"
section_name: "Addition of lands; Passage Island"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES"
subchapter_number: "LII"
subchapter_name: "ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 152, § 1, 56 Stat. 138; July 27, 1942, ch. 526, 56 Stat. 722; Pub. L. 94–567, § 4(a)(1), Oct. 20, 1976, 90 Stat. 2694.)"
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# § 408e. Addition of lands; Passage Island

Subject to valid existing rights the following-described lands, in addition to the lands established as the Isle Royale National Park pursuant to sections 408 to 408b of this title, are made a part of the park:

**(a)** Passage Island, containing approximately one hundred and eighty-two acres, located in sections 3, 4, and 9, township 67 north, range 32 west, in Keweenaw County, Michigan: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall retain control and jurisdiction over the following portions of the Island for lighthouse and boathouse purposes:

**(1)** All that part of Passage Island lying south of a true east and west line located four hundred and twenty-five feet true north of the center of the Passage Island Light containing approximately six and five-tenths acres.

**(2)** Beginning at the center of Passage Island Light, thence north thirty-three degrees fifty-two minutes east three thousand five hundred and fifteen feet to a point from which this description shall begin to measure, being the southwest corner of said boathouse site; thence north two hundred feet to a point being the northwest corner of said site; thence east one hundred and seventy-five feet more or less to the harbor shore; thence southeasterly following the harbor shore to a point on the shore being a point on the south boundary of the boathouse site; thence two hundred feet more or less west to the point of beginning, containing approximately seventy-eight one-hundredths acre.

**(3)** A right-of-way between the sites described in the preceding subparagraphs, to be defined by the Secretary of the Navy within a reasonable length of time after March 6, 1942.

**(b)** Gull Islands, containing approximately six acres, located in section 19, township 68 north, range 31 west, in Keweenaw County, Michigan.

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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 6, 1942, ch. 152, § 1, 56 Stat. 138; July 27, 1942, ch. 526, 56 Stat. 722; Pub. L. 94–567, § 4(a)(1), Oct. 20, 1976, 90 Stat. 2694.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1976— designated existing provisions as par. (a), redesignated subpars. (a) to (c) as (1) to (3), respectively, and added par. (b).

1942—Act , substituted “Secretary of the Navy” for “Secretary of the Treasury”.