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Public Law 87–133

To provide additional lands for the Tupelo National Battlefield site, Mississippi, and for other purposes.

Approved August 10, 1961

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide additional lands for the Tupelo National Battlefield site, Mississippi, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That, to further the purposes of the Act of February 21, 1929 (45 Stat. 1254), the Secretary of the Interior may acquire by donation or with donated funds not to exceed one-half acre of land and interests in land for addition to the adjoining Tupelo National Battlefield site.

Sec. 2.

The Tupelo National Battlefield site is hereby redesignated the Tupelo National Battlefield which shall continue to be administered

16 USC 1–4.

pursuant to the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), as amended and supplemented, entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes.”

Approved August 10, 1961.

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