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16 U.S.C. § 261 — Establishment; description of area

submitted 86 years ago by ch. 304 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 127 words · no verdicts yet

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This law creates Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. It covers land in Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee that the Secretary of the Interior picks as needed for the park. That land becomes the park once the United States owns it. The government cannot use public money to buy that land.

Once title to the land, structures, and other property in the Cumberland Gap-Cumberland Ford areas - covering parts of the old Warriors Path of the Indians and Daniel Boone's Wilderness Road, in Bell and Harlan Counties, Kentucky; Lee County, Virginia; and Claiborne County, Tennessee - passes to the United States, and the Secretary of the Interior decides that land is needed for a national historical park, that land becomes the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, set aside for the public's benefit and inspiration. The United States cannot use appropriated public money to buy any land within these areas.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

When title to such lands, structures, and other property in the Cumberland Gap-Cumberland Ford areas, being portions of the Warriors Path of the Indians and Wilderness Road of Daniel Boone, within Bell and Harlan Counties, Kentucky; Lee County, Virginia; and Claiborne County, Tennessee; as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary or desirable for national historical park purposes, shall have been vested in the United States, such area or areas shall be, and they are, established, dedicated, and set apart as a public park for the benefit and inspiration of the people and shall be known as the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park: Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any lands within the aforesaid areas.

Source credit: (June 11, 1940, ch. 304, § 1, 54 Stat. 262; May 26, 1943, ch. 103, § 1, 57 Stat. 85.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1940Enacted · Act of June 11, 1940, ch. 304 · 54 Stat. 262
  • 1943Amended · Act of May 26, 1943, ch. 103 · 57 Stat. 85

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 304 on 1940-06-11.

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