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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 423c. Duties of commission

Statutory text

It shall be the duties of the commissioners, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to superintend the opening or repair of such roads as may be necessary to the purposes of the battlefield, and to ascertain and mark with historical tablets or otherwise, as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, all breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelters, lines of battle, location of troops, buildings, and other historical points of interest within the battlefield or in its vicinity, and the said commission in establishing the battlefield shall have authority, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to employ such labor and service at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and to obtain such supplies and materials as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 423, 423a, and 423b to 423h 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.

  1. Pub. L. 69–746 § 4 · 44 Stat. 822

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 423c

    July 3, 1926, ch. 746, § 4, 44 Stat. 822

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 3, 1926, ch. 746, § 4, 44 Stat. 822

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. It shall be the duties of the commissioners, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to superintend the opening or repair of such roads as may be necessary to the purposes of the park, and to ascertain and mark with historical tablets or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine, all breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelters, lines of battle, location of troops, buildings, and other historical points of interest within the park or in its vicinity, and the said commission in establishing the park shall have authority, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to employ such labor and service at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War, and to obtain such supplies and materials as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Battlefield” substituted in text for “park” in view of redesignation of Petersburg National Military Park as Petersburg National Battlefield by Pub. L. 87–603. See section 423h–1 of this title.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 423 of this title.

Credits

1926–1962 · 4 acts
  1. 1926July 3, 1926, ch. 746, § 4, 44 Stat. 822
  2. 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2,
  3. 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1,
  4. 1962Pub. L. 87–603, § 1, , 76 Stat. 403.
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(July 3, 1926, ch. 746, § 4, 44 Stat. 822; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, ; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, ; Pub. L. 87–603, § 1, , 76 Stat. 403.)

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