Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 404a. 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 404 of this title, and to be purchased with the funds which may be subscribed by or through the Mammoth Cave National Park Association of Kentucky, and with other contributions for the purchase of lands in the Mammoth Cave National Park area: Provided, That any of said lands may be donated directly to the United States and conveyed to it, cost free, by fee-simple title, in cases where such donations may be made without the necessity of purchase.
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. 69–382 § 2 · 44 Stat. 635
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 404a
(May 25, 1926, ch. 382, § 2, 44 Stat. 635.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 25, 1926, ch. 382, § 2, 44 Stat. 635.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his Acceptance of title to lands conveyed, authorized. 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 funds which may be subscribed by or through the Mammoth Cave National Park Association of Kentucky, and with other contributions for the purchase of lands in the Mammoth Cave National Park area: Provided, That any of said lands Proviso. Direct conveyance accepted. may be donated directly to the United States and conveyed to it, cost free, by fee-simple title, in eases where such donations may be made without the necessity of purchase.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(May 25, 1926, ch. 382, § 2, 44 Stat. 635.)