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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 409a. Acceptance of title to lands

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept donations of land, interest in land, buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of said park as determined and fixed hereunder and donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance thereof, the title and evidence of title to lands purchased to be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to accept on behalf of the United States other lands, easements, and buildings of Revolutionary War interest in Morris and adjacent counties in New Jersey as may be donated for the extension of the Morristown National Historical Park.

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. 72–182 § 2 · 47 Stat. 1421

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 409a

    (Mar. 2, 1933, ch. 182, § 2, 47 Stat. 1421.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 2, 1933, ch. 182, § 2, 47 Stat. 1421.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to Acceptance of titles to lands, etc. accept donations of land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of said park as determined and fixed hereunder and donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance thereof, the title and evidence of title to lands purchased to be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, Proviso. Acquisitions for extensions. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to accept on behalf of the United States other lands, easements, and buildings of Revolutionary War interest in Morris and adjacent counties in New Jersey as may be donated for the extension of the Morristown National Historical Park.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Mar. 2, 1933, ch. 182, § 2, 47 Stat. 1421.)

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