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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 159d. Acceptance of General Philip Schuyler Mansion property

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept all or any portion of the General Philip Schuyler Mansion property, real and personal, situated at Schuylerville, New York, comprising approximately fifty acres.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 80–594 § 2 · 62 Stat. 570

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 159d

    June 22, 1948, ch. 594, § 2, 62 Stat. 571

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 22, 1948, ch. 594, § 2, 62 Stat. 571

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. Acceptance of Gen. Philip Schuyler Mansion property. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept all or any portion of the General Philip Schuyler Mansion property, real and personal, situated at Schuylerville, New York, comprising approximately fifty acres, and also donations of additional land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property in Saratoga County. The authority to acquire property, contained in section 2 of the Act of June 1, 1938, may be utilized by the Secretary of the 52 Stat. 609. 16 U. S. C. § 159a.. Interior in carrying out the purposes of this Act. These properties, upon acquisition by the United States, shall become a part of Saratoga National Historical Park, the total area of which, however, shall not exceed five thousand five hundred acres.

  2. Pub. L. 97–460 § 3 · 96 Stat. 2520

    Struck · 16 U.S.C. § 159d

    Pub. L. 97–460 struck out provisions which authorized the Secretary of the Interior to accept donations of land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property in Saratoga County which properties, together with the General Philip Schuyler Mansion property, were to become part of Saratoga National Historical Park. See sections 159f and 159g of this title

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 97–460 struck out provisions which authorized the Secretary of the Interior to accept donations of land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property in Saratoga County which properties, together with the General Philip Schuyler Mansion property, were to become part of Saratoga National Historical Park. See sections 159f and 159g of this title.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. Section 2 of the Act approved June 22, 1948 (62 Stat. 571; 16 U.S.C. 159d), is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept all or any portion of the General Philip Schuyler Mansion property, real and personal, situated at Schuylerville, New York, comprising approximately fifty acres.”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1983—Pub. L. 97–460 struck out provisions which authorized the Secretary of the Interior to accept donations of land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property in Saratoga County which properties, together with the General Philip Schuyler Mansion property, were to become part of Saratoga National Historical Park. See sections 159f and 159g of this title.

Credits

1948–1983 · 2 acts
  1. 1948June 22, 1948, ch. 594, § 2, 62 Stat. 571
  2. 1983Pub. L. 97–460, § 3, , 96 Stat. 2522.
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(June 22, 1948, ch. 594, § 2, 62 Stat. 571; Pub. L. 97–460, § 3, , 96 Stat. 2522.)

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