Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 426b. Duties of commission
Statutory text
It shall be the duty of the commission, acting under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to inspect the battlefield of Stones River, Tennessee, and to carefully study the available records and historical data with respect to the location and movement of all troops which engaged in the battle of Stones River, and the important events connected therewith, with a view of preserving and marking such field for historical and professional military study.
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. 69–374 § 3 · 44 Stat. 1399
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 426b
Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 3, 44 Stat. 1399
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 3, 44 Stat. 1399Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the commission, acting under the Inspection and report of battle field of Stones River, for preserving, etc. direction of the Secretary of War. to inspect the battle field of Stones River, Tennessee, and to carefully study the available records and historical data with respect to the location and movement of all troops which engaged in the battle of Stones River, and the important events connected therewith, with a view of preserving and marking such field for historical and professional military study. The commission shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Secretary of War not later than December 1, 1927. Report of commission. Contents. Such report shall describe the portion or portions of land within the area of the battle field which the commission thinks should be acquired and embraced in a national park and the price at which such land can be purchased and its reasonable market value; the report of the commission shall also embrace a map or maps showing the lines of battle and the locations of all troops engaged in the battle of Stones River and the location of the land which it recommends be acquired for the national park; the report of the commission shall contain recommendations for the location of historical tablets at such points on the battle field, both within and without the land to be acquired for the park, as they may deem fitting and necessary to clearly designate positions and movements of troops and important events connected with the battle of Stones River.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
A provision of act , authorizing the submission of a report by the commission to the Secretary of War not later than , and describing the contents of such report was omitted as executed.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 426 of this title.
Credits
1927–1933 · 3 acts
- 1927Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 3, 44 Stat. 1399
- 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2,
- 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, .
Show as published
(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 3, 44 Stat. 1399; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, ; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, .)