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Excerpt from Mount Desert National Park: Hearing Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, Sixty-Fifth Congress, Second Session on H. R. 11935, a Bill to Establish the Mount Desert National Park in the State of Maine, May 30, 1918
Mr. Tillman. Gentlemen, we have met this morning for the pur pose of listening to the advocates of H. R. 11985, a bill introduced by Mr. Peters of Maine to establish the Mount Desert National Park in the State of Maine. Mr. Peters, the Chair will recognize you for whatever statement you desire to make, and I will ask you to take charge of the hearing and introduce whatever witnesses you desire to present to the committee.
Mr. Peters. I will do so, Mr. Chairman. I want to brie?y de scribe the origin of this proposition. On the coast of Maine, on the island of Mount Desert, a tract of land of about acres now, with additions of more in _'contemplation and ready to be added, is now owned by the United States as a national monument, accepted by the President in 1916 under the statute of 1906 authorizing him to do so. This property is of extraordinary scenic and historical and tourist value. The details of it I will ask Mr. George B. Dorr, who is here and who is the custodian appointed over it by the Secretary of the Interior, and who is also, by the way, one of the selectmen of the town of Bar Harbor, in which a large portion of this land is Sit uated - to explain to' you presently. This property was acquired by public - spirited individuals, largely at the instigation of Mr. Dorr, who has been devoting years of his activities to getting it together, for the purpose of giving it to the Government to be used as a national park. I say national park, because that is the way people look at it, but it is now legally and technically a national monument.
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