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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 446. Sites for tablets at Antietam; care and supervision

Statutory text

All lands acquired by the United States, whether by purchase, gift, or otherwise, for the purposes of sites for tablets for the marking of the lines of battle of the Army of the Potomac and of the Army of Northern Virginia at Antietam, and of the position of each of the forty-three different commands of the Regular Army engaged in the battle of Antietam, shall be under the care and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior.

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. 51–837 § 1 · 26 Stat. 371

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 446

    Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 837, § 1, 26 Stat. 401

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 837, § 1, 26 Stat. 401

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Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Administrative functions of certain national military parks transferred to Department of the Interior by Ex. Ord. Nos. 6166 and 6228, set out in notes under section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

National Park Service substituted for Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations referred to in Ex. Ord. No. 6166, by act Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, § 1, 48 Stat. 389.

Credits

1890–1933 · 3 acts
  1. 1890Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 837, § 1, 26 Stat. 401
  2. 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2,
  3. 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, .
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(Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 837, § 1, 26 Stat. 401; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, ; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, .)

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