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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 179. Donations of buildings and other property

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to accept buildings, moneys, or other property which may be useful in the betterment of the administration and affairs of the Glacier National Park under his supervision, and which may be donated for park purposes. He may accept patented lands or rights-of-way over patented lands in the Glacier National Park that may be donated for park purposes.

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. 64–209 § 1 · 39 Stat. 262

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 179

    July 1, 1916, ch. 209, § 1, 39 Stat. 308

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 1, 1916, ch. 209, § 1, 39 Stat. 308

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

The first sentence of this section is from section 1 of act , and the last sentence from section 1 of act .

Credits

1916–1917 · 2 acts
  1. 1916July 1, 1916, ch. 209, § 1, 39 Stat. 308
  2. 1917June 12, 1917, ch. 27, § 1, 40 Stat. 151.
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(July 1, 1916, ch. 209, § 1, 39 Stat. 308; June 12, 1917, ch. 27, § 1, 40 Stat. 151.)

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