Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 429. Brices Cross Roads and Tupelo battlefields in Mississippi; establishment
Statutory text
For the purpose of commemorating the battles of Brices Cross Roads, Mississippi, and Tupelo, Mississippi, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to (1) acquire not to exceed one acre of land, free of cost to the United States, at each of the above-named battle fields, (2) fence each parcel of land so acquired, (3) build an approach to each such parcel of land, and (4) erect a suitable marker on each such parcel of land.
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. 70–289 § 1 · 45 Stat. 387
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 429
Feb. 21, 1929, ch. 289, § 1, 45 Stat. 1254
Source evidence
Code source credit
Feb. 21, 1929, ch. 289, § 1, 45 Stat. 1254
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
“Secretary of the Interior” substituted in text for “Secretary of War” pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2; and Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1. See below.
Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, transferred the functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of the Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to the Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate.
Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, and Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, set out as a note under section 901 of Title 5, transferred the administrative functions of Brices Cross Roads and Tupelo battlefield sites to the Department of the Interior.
Credits
1929–1933 · 3 acts
- 1929Feb. 21, 1929, ch. 289, § 1, 45 Stat. 1254
- 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2,
- 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, .
Show as published
(Feb. 21, 1929, ch. 289, § 1, 45 Stat. 1254; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, ; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, .)