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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 403a. Acceptance of title to lands

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to accept as hereinafter provided on behalf of the United States title to the lands referred to in section 403 of this title and to be purchased with the $1,200,000 which has been subscribed by the State of Virginia and the Shenandoah National Park Association of Virginia and with other contributions for the purchase of lands in the Shenandoah National Park area, and with the $1,066,693 which has been subscribed by the State of Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association and by the Great Smoky Mountains (Incorporated) (North Carolina) and with other contributions for the purchase of lands in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park area.

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. 69–363 § 2 · 44 Stat. 616

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 403a

    (May 22, 1926, ch. 363, § 2, 44 Stat. 616.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 22, 1926, ch. 363, § 2, 44 Stat. 616.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. Acceptance of title of lands in Shenandoah Lark area in Virginia. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to accept as hereinafter provided on behalf of the United States title to the lands referred to in the previous section hereof and to be purchased with the $1,200,000 which has been subscribed by the State of Virginia, and the Shenandoah National Park Association of Virginia and with other contributions for the purchase In Smoky Mountain Park area in Tennessee and North Carolina. of lands in the Shenandoah National Park area, and with the $1,066,693 which has been subscribed by the State of Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association and by the Great Smoky Mountains (Incorporated) (North Carolina) and with other contributions for the purchase of lands in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park area.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(May 22, 1926, ch. 363, § 2, 44 Stat. 616.)

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