16 U.S.C. § 423n — Acceptance of lands and funds; acquisition of lands
submitted 90 years ago by ch. 840 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 118 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary of the Interior can accept donated land, buildings, or funds for the Eutaw Springs Battlefield Site. Land titles must satisfy the Secretary before being accepted. The Secretary can also buy or condemn land using donated money, if the price is reasonable.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept donations of land, interests in land, and/or buildings, structures, and other property within the boundaries of the said battlefield site as determined and fixed hereunder, and donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance thereof, the title and evidence of title to lands acquired to be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That he may acquire on behalf of the United States out of any donated funds, either by purchase at prices deemed by him reasonable, or by condemnation under the provisions of section 3113 of title 40, such tracts of land on the said battlefield site as may be necessary for the completion thereof.
Source credit: (June 26, 1936, ch. 840, § 2, 49 Stat. 1975.)
- 1936Enacted · Act of June 26, 1936, ch. 840 · 49 Stat. 1975
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