§ 426g. Occupation of lands by former owners

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. 1927

   Pub. L. 69–374 § 8 · 44 Stat. 1399

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 426g

   Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 8, 44 Stat. 1400

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 8, 44 Stat. 1400

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 8. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to enter into agreements, upon such nominal terms as he may prescribe, with such present owners of the land as may desire to remain upon it, to occupy and cultivate their present holdings, upon condition that they will preserve the present buildings and roads, and the present out-lines of field and forest, and that they will only cut trees or under-brush under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, and that they will assist in caring for and protecting all tablets, monuments, or such other artificial works as may from time to time be erected by proper authority.

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