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Public Law 74–520
To amend sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the commemoration of the termination of the War between the States at Appomattox Court House, Virginia”, approved June 18, 1930, and to establish the Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument, and for other purposes.
Approved August 13, 1935
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the commemoration of the termination of the War between the States at Appomattox Court House, Virginia”, approved June 18, 1930, and to establish the Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That sections 1, 2,
Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument.
Vol. 46, p. 777.
and 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the commemoration of the termination of the War between the States at Appomattox Court House, Virginia”, approved June 18, 1930, are hereby amended to read as follows:
“That when title to all the land, structures, and other property
Establishment.
within a distance of one and one-half miles from the Appomattox Court House site, Virginia, as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Interior in the exercise of his discretion as necessary or desirable for national monument purposes, shall have been vested in the United States in fee simple, such area or areas shall be, and they are hereby, established, dedicated, and set apart as a public monument for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall be known as the ‘Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument.’
“Sec. 2.
That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 1794.
to carry out the provisions of this Act as amended hereby.
“Sec. 3.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,
Acquisition of land.
authorized to accept donations of land and/or buildings, structures, and so forth, within the boundaries of said park as determined and fixed hereunder and donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance thereof: Provided, That he may acquire on behalf of the United States, by purchase when purchasable at prices deemed by
Proviso.
Purchases; condemnation proceedings.
Vol. 25, p. 357; U. S. C., p. 1785.
him reasonable, otherwise by condemnation under the provisions of the Act of August 1, 1888, such tracts of land within the said park as may be necessary for the completion thereof within the limits of the appropriation as authorized in Section 2.”
Sec. 2.
Such Act of June 18, 1930, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new section to read as follows:
“Sec. 4.
The administration, protection, and development of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument shall be exercised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior’ by the National Park Service, subject to the provisions of the Act of
Vol. 39, p. 535; U. S. C., p. 591.
August 25, 1916, entitled ‘An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes ’, as amended.”
Approved, August 13, 1935.