(5 ILCS 555/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 4501)
Sec. 1.
The offer made by the Secretary of the United States
Department of the Interior pursuant to Public Law 90-339, 82 Stat. 177,
to retrocede such civil and criminal jurisdiction over private persons
and property as the United States now possesses within the area of
Jackson, Union and Williamson Counties known as Crab Orchard National
Wildlife Refuge is accepted. However, this acceptance of the
retrocession of jurisdiction shall not affect or impair the right, title
and interest of the United States in and to the lands which may now or
hereafter be included within the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge,
nor its power and authority by legislative or authorized executive
action to make such rules and regulations as it shall deem needful or
convenient for the promotion and protection of the Federal uses and
purposes to which the areas comprising the refuge shall be devoted from
time to time.
(Source: P.A. 79-141.)
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