Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 261. Establishment; description of area
Statutory text
When title to such lands, structures, and other property in the Cumberland Gap-Cumberland Ford areas, being portions of the Warriors Path of the Indians and Wilderness Road of Daniel Boone, within Bell and Harlan Counties, Kentucky; Lee County, Virginia; and Claiborne County, Tennessee; as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary or desirable for national historical park purposes, shall have been vested in the United States, such area or areas shall be, and they are, established, dedicated, and set apart as a public park for the benefit and inspiration of the people and shall be known as the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park: Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any lands within the aforesaid areas.
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.
Pub. L. 76–304 § 1 · 54 Stat. 262
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 261
June 11, 1940, ch. 304, § 1, 54 Stat. 262
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 11, 1940, ch. 304, § 1, 54 Stat. 262
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1943—Act , omitted proviso relating to inclusion of certain specified lands.
Credits
1940–1943 · 2 acts
- 1940June 11, 1940, ch. 304, § 1, 54 Stat. 262
- 1943May 26, 1943, ch. 103, § 1, 57 Stat. 85.
Show as published
(June 11, 1940, ch. 304, § 1, 54 Stat. 262; May 26, 1943, ch. 103, § 1, 57 Stat. 85.)