16 U.S.C. § 427 — Site of battle with Sioux Indians; purchase; erection of monument

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The Secretary of the Interior must buy land, up to 160 acres, at the site where Major Reno's and Major Benteen's commands fought the Sioux. The Secretary can use condemnation if needed. A monument and historical tablet must be built there.

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to acquire — by condemnation or another method — as much land as the Secretary considers appropriate, up to 160 acres, at the site of the battle with the Sioux Indians where the commands of Major Marcus A. Reno and Major Frederick W. Benteen fought. The Secretary must then put up a suitable monument and historical tablet on that land.

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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, such land as may be deemed appropriate, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, on the site of the battle with the Sioux Indians in which the commands of Major Marcus A. Reno and Major Frederick W. Benteen were engaged, and to erect thereon a suitable monument and historical tablet.

Source credit: (Apr. 14, 1926, ch. 138, § 1, 44 Stat. 251.)

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1926Enacted · Act of Apr. 14, 1926, ch. 138 · 44 Stat. 251

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