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Title 16 — Conservation

Part B · Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 231. Establishment; description of area

Statutory text

The lands in Federal ownership located in Chalmette, Louisiana, in sections 10 and 21, township 13 south, range 12 east, Saint Helena meridian, on which there has been erected a monument pursuant to the provisions of section 450a of this title to the memory of the soldiers who fell in the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, including the national cemetery at Chalmette, Louisiana, are designated as the Chalmette Unit of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve.

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. 76–640 § 1 · 53 Stat. 1342

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 231

    Aug. 10, 1939, ch. 640, § 1, 53 Stat. 1342

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 10, 1939, ch. 640, § 1, 53 Stat. 1342

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

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve” substituted for “Jean Lafitte National Historical Park” pursuant to Pub. L. 111–11.

“Chalmette Unit of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park” substituted for “Chalmette National Historical Park” pursuant to Pub. L. 95–625.

Credits

1939–2009 · 3 acts
  1. 1939Aug. 10, 1939, ch. 640, § 1, 53 Stat. 1342
  2. 1978Pub. L. 95–625, title IX, § 909, , 92 Stat. 3538
  3. 2009Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7105(f)(1)(B), , 123 Stat. 1193.
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(Aug. 10, 1939, ch. 640, § 1, 53 Stat. 1342; Pub. L. 95–625, title IX, § 909, , 92 Stat. 3538; Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7105(f)(1)(B), , 123 Stat. 1193.)

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