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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 407. Establishment; description of area

Statutory text

The tract of land known prior to , as the Carlsbad Cave National Monument, in the State of New Mexico, established and designated as a national monument under the Act of , entitled “An Act for the preservation of American antiquities,” 1 and by presidential proclamation of , is declared to be a national park and dedicated as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people under the name of the Carlsbad Caverns National Park, under which name the aforesaid national park shall be entitled to receive and to use all moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the Carlsbad Cave National Monument.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

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. 71–272 § 1 · 46 Stat. 279

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 407

    (May 14, 1930, ch. 272, § 1, 46 Stat. 279.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 14, 1930, ch. 272, § 1, 46 Stat. 279.)

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Act of , entitled “An Act for the preservation of American antiquities,”, referred to in text, is act June 8, 1906, ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225, known as the Antiquities Act of 1906, which was classified generally to sections 431, 432, and 433 of this title. The Act was repealed and restated as section 1866(b) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and sections 320301(a) to (c), 320302, and 320303 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs, by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, , 128 Stat. 3094, 3260, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54.

The presidential proclamation of , referred to in text, is Proc. No. 1923, 43 Stat. 1929.

Credits

(May 14, 1930, ch. 272, § 1, 46 Stat. 279.)

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