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Title 16 — Conservation

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

§ 450r. Ackia Battleground National Monument; establishment

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized in his discretion to acquire, by purchase or by condemnation and/or accept by donation in behalf of the United States, such lands, easements, and buildings not to exceed fifty acres, and when title satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior shall have been vested in the United States such area or areas shall be, upon proclamation of the President, established, dedicated, and set apart as a public monument for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall be known as the “Ackia Battleground National Monument”: Provided, That such area shall include the site of the Battle of Ackia.

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. 74–755 § 2 · 49 Stat. 897

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 450r

    (Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 755, § 2, 49 Stat. 897.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 755, § 2, 49 Stat. 897.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Acquisition of site. authorized in his discretion to acquire, by purchase or by condemnation and/or accept by donation in behalf of the United States, such lands, easements, and buildings not to exceed fifty acres, and when title satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior shall have been vested in the United States such area or areas shall be, upon proclamation of the President, established, dedicated, and set apart as a public monument for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall be known as the “Ackia Battleground National Monument”: Proviso. Area to include battleground. Provided, That such area shall include the site of the Battle of Ackia.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Inclusion in Natchez Trace Parkway

Ackia Battleground National Monument included in the Natchez Trace Parkway, see section 460–1 of this title.

Executive Documents

Boundaries of Monument

Boundaries established by Presidential Proc. No. 2307, , 3 F.R. 2579, 53 Stat. 2494.

Credits

(Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 755, § 2, 49 Stat. 897.)

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