Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 410oo. Purposes
Statutory text
The purposes of this subchapter are to—
preserve and interpret the history of Natchez, Mississippi, as a significant city in the history of the American South;
preserve and interpret the sites and structures associated with all the peoples of Natchez and its surrounding area from earliest inhabitants to the modern era, and including blacks both slave and free;
preserve and interpret the region’s social, political, and economic development, with particular emphasis on the pre- and post-Civil War eras; and
preserve and interpret the region’s commercial and agricultural history, especially in relation to the Mississippi River and cotton.
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. 100–479 § 1 · 102 Stat. 2324
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 410oo
(Pub. L. 100–479, § 1, Oct. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 2324.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 100–479, § 1, Oct. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 2324.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SECTION 1. PURPOSES. The purposes of this Act are to— (1) preserve and interpret the history of Natchez, Mississippi, as a significant city in the history of the American South; (2) preserve and interpret the sites and structures associated with all the peoples of Natchez and its surrounding area from earliest inhabitants to the modern era, and including blacks both slave and free; (3) preserve and interpret the region’s social, political, and economic development, with particular emphasis on the pre-and post-Civil War eras; and (4) preserve and interpret the region’s commercial and agricultural history, especially in relation to the Mississippi River and cotton.
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