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Public Law 54–405
To authorize the Secretary of War to improve and maintain the public roads within the limits of the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Approved June 10, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the Secretary of War to improve and maintain the public roads within the limits of the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Gettysburg National Park.
Roads to be under Secretary of War.
States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized in his discretion to improve and maintain the public roads within the limits of the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, over which jurisdiction has been or may hereafter be ceded to the United
Proviso.
States: Provided, That nothing contained in this Act shall be deemedFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 405–408. 1896. and held to prejudice the rights acquired by any State or by any military
Rights not affected.
organization to the ground on which its monuments or markers are placed nor the right of way to the same.
Approved, .