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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 426j. Authorization of appropriation; fixing of boundaries as condition to purchase of lands

Statutory text

The sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended for the purposes of sections 426 to 426j of this title: Provided, That no obligation for the purchase of lands shall be incurred until the commission has fixed the boundaries of said battlefield.

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 § 11 · 44 Stat. 1399

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 426j

    Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 11, 44 Stat. 1401

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 11, 44 Stat. 1401

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 11. That the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be Amount authorized to be expended. necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended for the purposes of this Act: Provided, That no obligation for the purchase Proviso. Conditions. of lands shall be incurred until the commission has fixed the boundaries of said park.

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 Stones River National Military Park as Stones River National Battlefield by Pub. L. 86–443. See section 426l of this title.

Credits

1927–1960 · 2 acts
  1. 1927Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 11, 44 Stat. 1401
  2. 1960Pub. L. 86–443, § 2, , 74 Stat. 82.
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(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 11, 44 Stat. 1401; Pub. L. 86–443, § 2, , 74 Stat. 82.)

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