Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 422a. Acceptance of lands
Statutory text
The establishment of the Moores Creek National Battlefield shall be carried forward under the control and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, who is authorized to receive from the State of North Carolina a deed of conveyance to the United States of all the lands belonging to the said State, embracing thirty acres, more or less, and described more particularly in section 422 of this title.
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. 69–448 § 2 · 44 Stat. 684
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 422a
June 2, 1926, ch. 448, § 2, 44 Stat. 685
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 2, 1926, ch. 448, § 2, 44 Stat. 685Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. The establishment of the Moores Creek National Military Secretary of War to control, and accept conveyance of land from North Carolina. Park shall be carried forward under the control and direction of the Secretary of War, who is hereby authorized to receive from the State of North Carolina a deed of conveyance to the United States of all the lands belonging to the said State, embracing thirty acres, more or less, and described more particularly in the preceding section.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Battlefield” substituted in text for “Military Park” on authority of Pub. L. 96–344, § 12, , 94 Stat. 1136, which redesignated Moores Creek National Military Park as Moores Creek National Battlefield.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Administrative functions of Moores Creek National Military Park transferred to Department of the Interior by Ex. Ord. Nos. 6166 and 6228, set out as a note under section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Credits
1926–1980 · 4 acts
- 1926June 2, 1926, ch. 448, § 2, 44 Stat. 685
- 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2,
- 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1,
- 1980Pub. L. 96–344, § 12, , 94 Stat. 1136.
Show as published
(June 2, 1926, ch. 448, § 2, 44 Stat. 685; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, ; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, ; Pub. L. 96–344, § 12, , 94 Stat. 1136.)