Volume 73 · 108
Public Law 86–62
To revise the boundaries of the Kings Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina, and to authorize the procurement and exchange of lands, and for other purposes.
Approved June 23, 1959
Statutory text
AN ACT
To revise the boundaries of the Kings Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina, and to authorize the procurement and exchange of lands, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That in order to consolidate the Federal ownership of lands in. and to facilitate protection and preservation of, Kings Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina, the boundaries are hereby revised as follows:
Federally owned lands lying west of the easterly right-of-way line of State Route P–11–123, containing approximately two hundred acres, are excluded from the park;
Privately owned lands lying east of the easterly right-of-way line of State Route P–11–123, containing approximately eighty acres, are included in the park; and
Lands of the Mary Morris estate lying south of the southerly right-of-way line of the historic Yorkville-Shelbyville Road, and forming the triangle bounded by the new State Route P–11–86, the historic Yorkville-Shelbyville Road and the present park boundary (Old Houser tract), aggregating approximately sixty acres, are included in the park.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire lands
Acquisition of lands.
and interests in lands within the revised boundary by purchase, donation, with donated funds, or by exchange, utilizing for such exchanges federally owned lands of approximately equal value excluded from the park pursuant to this Act. Federally owned lands so excluded which the Secretary of the Interior determines are not needed for such exchanges shall be disposed of in accordance with the
provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended.
Sec. 3.
Lands and interests therein acquired pursuant to this Act
Applicability of laws, etc.
shall thereupon become a part of the Kings Mountain National Military Park and be subject to all the laws and regulations applicable thereto.
Approved June 23, 1959.