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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 218. Addition of land

Statutory text

The approximately six acres of land described in the following recorded deeds to the United States are added to and made a part of the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in the State of Kentucky:

(a)

Deed of conveyance to the United States, dated , made and entered into by and between J. R. Howell and Mattie Johnson Howell, his wife, and W. L. Ferrill and Minnie Ferrill, his wife, of Hodgenville, Larue County, Kentucky, recorded on , in deed book numbered 58, page 262, in the records of the county of Larue, Kentucky; and

(b)

Quitclaim deed to the United States, made and entered into by and between Carl J. Howell and Dorothy N. Howell, his wife, of Hodgenville, Larue County, Kentucky, recorded on , in deed book numbered 59, page 435, in the records of the county of Larue, Kentucky.

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. 81–149 · 63 Stat. 140

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 218

    May 27, 1949, ch. 149, 63 Stat. 140

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    May 27, 1949, ch. 149, 63 Stat. 140

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park” substituted for “Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site” in introductory provisions pursuant to Pub. L. 111–11.

“Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site” substituted for “Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park” in introductory provisions pursuant to Pub. L. 86–231.

Credits

1949–2009 · 3 acts
  1. 1949May 27, 1949, ch. 149, 63 Stat. 140
  2. 1959Pub. L. 86–231, , 73 Stat. 466
  3. 2009Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7114(b) , 123 Stat. 1202.
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(May 27, 1949, ch. 149, 63 Stat. 140; Pub. L. 86–231, , 73 Stat. 466; Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7114(b) , 123 Stat. 1202.)

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