• 4. Everglades National Park
An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to investigate and report to Congress
on the advisability and practicability of establishing a national park to be known as the
Tropic Everglades National Park in the State of Florida, and for other purposes, approved
March 1, 1929 (45 Stat. 1443)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,
directed to investigate and report to Congress as to the desirability and practicability
of establishing a national park, to be known as the Tropic Everglades National Park, in
the Everglades of Dade, Monroe, and Collier Counties of the State of Florida, for the
benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States and to preserve said area in its
natural state, including in his report full information as to the ownership, value,
estimated cost to acquire and character of the lands involved and his opinion as to
whether such areas measure up to national park standards. Any appropriations for the
National Park Service shall be available for the necessary expenses of such investigation.
