Volume 49 · 1483
Public Law 74–525
To provide for the addition or additions of certain lands to the Colonial National Monument in the State of Virginia.
Approved June 5, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the addition or additions of certain lands to the Colonial National Monument in the State of Virginia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Colonial National Monument, Va.
Lands, etc., added to.
of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to acquire by purchase and/or accept by donation, in behalf of the United States, such lands, easements, and buildings comprising the
Description.
former Governor Berkeley’s mansion and homestead in James City County and Carter’s Grove mansion and homestead in the same county, and the Rosewell mansion and homestead in Gloucester County as are desirable for the proper rounding out of the boundaries and for the administrative control of the Colonial National Monument, and such lands as are necessary for parkways, not to
Parkways.
exceed five hundred feet wide, to connect said mansions to the said Colonial National Monument, the title and evidence of title to lands acquired to be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided,
Proviso.
Limitation on expenditures.
Vol. 46, p. 1490.
That the said acquisition of lands and/or improvements shall be made only from such funds as may be appropriated pursuant to the authorization of the Act of March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1490).
Sec. 2.
That the area now within the Colonial National Monument,
To be known hereafter as ‘Colonial National Historical Park.”
together with such additions as may hereafter be made thereto, pursuant to section 1 hereof, shall be known as the “Colonial National Historical Park”, under which name the aforesaid national park shall be entitled to receive and to use all moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the Colonial National Monument.
Sec. 3.
All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions
Inconsistent provisions repealed.
of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.
Approved, June 5, 1936.