Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 450dd. De Soto National Memorial; establishment
Statutory text
For the purpose of establishing an appropriate memorial to Hernando De Soto, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to acquire on behalf of the United States, by donation, by purchase with donated funds when purchaseable 1 at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation with donated funds, such lands and interests in land within an area of not to exceed thirty acres as he may select in the vicinity of Tampa Bay and Bradenton, Florida, and to construct thereon a suitable memorial structure, together with such connecting roads and public facilities as may be desirable.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. Probably should be “purchasable”.
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. 80–109 § 1 · 62 Stat. 78
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 450dd
Mar. 11, 1948, ch. 109, § 1, 62 Stat. 78
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 11, 1948, ch. 109, § 1, 62 Stat. 78Pub. L. 86–728 § 1A · 74 Stat. 856
Changed · 16 U.S.C. § 450dd
Pub. L. 86–728 increased limitation on acquisition of land from twenty-five to thirty acres
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 86–728 increased limitation on acquisition of land from twenty-five to thirty acres.
0 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 2 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1960—Pub. L. 86–728 increased limitation on acquisition of land from twenty-five to thirty acres.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Authorization of Appropriations
Section 3 of act , as amended Aug. 21, 1950, ch. 768, 64 Stat. 469; , Pub. L. 86–728, § 1B, 74 Stat. 856; , Pub. L. 95–625, title I, § 101(8), 92 Stat. 3471; , Pub. L. 96–87, title IV, § 401(a), 93 Stat. 665, provided that: “There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed $292,000, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act [sections 450dd and 450dd–1 of this title].”
Credits
1948–1960 · 2 acts
- 1948Mar. 11, 1948, ch. 109, § 1, 62 Stat. 78
- 1960Pub. L. 86–728, § 1A, , 74 Stat. 856.
Show as published
(Mar. 11, 1948, ch. 109, § 1, 62 Stat. 78; Pub. L. 86–728, § 1A, , 74 Stat. 856.)