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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.

  1. 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. 1399

    Enacted 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
  1. 1927Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 3, 44 Stat. 1399
  2. 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2,
  3. 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, .)

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