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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 430gg. Determination of desirable areas

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to make an examination of the Horseshoe Bend Battle Ground with a view to determining the area or areas thereof deemed desirable for inclusion in the Horseshoe Bend National Military Park and which, except for not more than twenty acres of any other lands adjacent to such battleground found by the Secretary to be necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 430ff to 430jj of this title, lie within the lands particularly described as follows: Sections 13, 14, 15, 22, and 23, all township 23 north, range 23 east, Saint Stephens meridian.

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. 84–729 § 2 · 70 Stat. 576

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 430gg

    (July 25, 1956, ch. 729, § 2, 70 Stat. 651.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 25, 1956, ch. 729, § 2, 70 Stat. 651.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. (a) The La Crosse National Guard Target Range, located near La Crosse, Wisconsin, in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of section 10 thence north 6 rods; thence east 160 rods; thence south 6 rods; thence west 160 rods to the place of beginning, being south 6 acres of the southwest quarter of section 10, township 15 north, range 7 west, recorded in La Crosse County, October 23, 1912, at 4:35 postmeridian, volume 120, page 354. (b) Four hundred and forty acres of land situated in sections 15 and 16, township 17 north, range 2 east, Juneau County, Wisconsin, more particularly described as follows: Township 17 north, range 2 east: Section 15, northwest quarter southwest quarter, southwest quarter southwest quarter; and section 16, northeast quarter northeast quarter, northwest quarter northeast quarter, southwest quarter northeast quarter, southeast quarter northeast quarter, northeast quarter northwest quarter, northwest quarter northwest quarter, southwest quarter northwest quarter, southeast quarter northwest quarter, northeast quarter southwest quarter. Township 17 north, range 2 east: Section 2, a parcel of land 36 rods square in the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter containing 8.10 acres, more or less.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(July 25, 1956, ch. 729, § 2, 70 Stat. 651.)

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