Volume 54
Public Law 76–16
To provide for the acquisition by the United States of the estate of Patrick Henry in Charlotte County, Virginia, known as Red Hill.
Approved January 29, 1940
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the acquisition by the United States of the estate of Patrick Henry in Charlotte County, Virginia, known as Red Hill.
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 is hereby authorized and directed to acquire by purchase, or otherwise, on behalf of the United States, at a cost not to exceed $100,000, the estate of Patrick Henry in Charlotte County, Virginia, known as Red Hill.
Sec. 2.
The property acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be a permanent public memorial to Patrick Henry, and shall be administered as the Patrick Henry National Monument, as provided in the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of a
16 U. S. C., Supp. V, §§ 450f–450k.
Appropriation authorized.
Post, p. 448.
national monument on the site of Red Hill, estate of Patrick Henry”, approved August 15, 1935.
Sec. 3.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Approved, January 29, 1940.