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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 448. Pioneer National Monument; establishment

Statutory text

When title to the sites of Fort Boonesborough, Boones Station, Bryans Station, and Blue Licks Battlefield, in the State of Kentucky, comprising noncontiguous tracts to be united by a Memorial Highway, together with such historical structures and remains thereon, as may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary or desirable for national-monument purposes and for the proper commemoration of the valor and sacrifices of the pioneers of “the West”, shall have been vested in the United States, said areas and improvements shall be designated and set apart by proclamation of the President for preservation as a national monument for the benefit and inspiration of the people, and shall be called the “Pioneer National Monument.”

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. 73–573 § 1 · 48 Stat. 982

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 448

    (June 18, 1934, ch. 573, § 1, 48 Stat. 982.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 18, 1934, ch. 573, § 1, 48 Stat. 982.)

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Credits

(June 18, 1934, ch. 573, § 1, 48 Stat. 982.)

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