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16 U.S.C. § 425f — Ascertaining and marking lines of battle
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It shall be lawful for the authorities of any State having had troops engaged in said battles of Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Court House, Wilderness, and Chancellorsville, including Salem Church, or in any of said battles, to enter upon the lands and approaches of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial for the purposes of ascertaining and marking the lines of battle of troops engaged therein: Provided, That before any such lines are permanently designated, the position of the lines and the proposed methods of marking them by monuments, tablets, or otherwise, including the design and inscription for the same, shall be submitted to the Secretary of the Interior, and shall first receive written approval of the Secretary, which approval shall be based upon formal written reports to be made to him in each case by the commissioners of the park: Provided, That no discrimination shall be made against any State as to the manner of designing lines, but any grant made to any State by the Secretary of the Interior may be used by any other State.
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It shall be lawful for the authorities of any State having had troops engaged in said battles of Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Court House, Wilderness, and Chancellorsville, including Salem Church, or in any of said battles, to enter upon the lands and approaches of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial for the purposes of ascertaining and marking the lines of battle of troops engaged therein: Provided, That before any such lines are permanently designated, the position of the lines and the proposed methods of marking them by monuments, tablets, or otherwise, including the design and inscription for the same, shall be submitted to the Secretary of the Interior, and shall first receive written approval of the Secretary, which approval shall be based upon formal written reports to be made to him in each case by the commissioners of the park: Provided, That no discrimination shall be made against any State as to the manner of designing lines, but any grant made to any State by the Secretary of the Interior may be used by any other State.
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In order to commemorate the Civil War battles of Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Court House, Wilderness, and Chancellorsville, including Salem Church, all located at or near Fredericksburg, Virginia, and to mark and preserve for historical purposes the breastworks, earthworks, gun emplacements, walls, or other defenses or shelters used by the armies in said battles, so far as the marking and preservation of the same are practicable, the land herein authorized to be acquired, or so much thereof as may be taken, and the highways and approaches herein authorized to be constructed, are declared to be a national military park to be known as the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial whenever the title to the same shall have been acquired by the United States, the said land so to be acquired being the land necessary for a park of the plan indicated on the index map sheet filed with the report of the Battle Field Commission appointed pursuant to an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the inspection of the battle fields in and around Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia,” approved on the 7th day of June 1924, said index map sheet being referred to in said report, and particularly in the “Combined Plan—Antietam system,” described in said report, the first of the plans mentioned in said report under the heading “Combined Plan—Antietam system” being the plan which is adopted, the said land herein authorized to be acquired being such land as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary to establish a park on the combined plan, Antietam system, above referred to, the particular boundaries of such land to be fixed by surveys made previous to the attempt to acquire the same, and authority is given to the Secretary of the Interior to acquire fo
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 425c
cultivate their present holdings, upon condition
that they will preserve the present breastworks,
earthworks, walls, defenses, shelters, buildings,
and roads, and the present outlines of the battle-
fields, and that they will only cut trees or un-
derbrush or disturb or remove the soil, under
such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior
may prescribe, and that they will assist in car-
ing for and protecting all tablets, monuments,
or such other artificial works as may from time
to time be erected by proper authority: Provided
further, That if such agreements to lease cover
any lands the title to which shall have been ac-
quired by the United States, the proceeds from
such agreements shall be applied by the Sec-
retary of the Interior toward the maintenance of
the park.
(Feb. 14, 1927, ch. 127, § 3, 44 Stat. 1092; Ex. Ord.
No. 6166, § 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1,
July 28, 1933.)
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note
set out under section 425 of this title.
§ 425c. Commission; organization
The affairs of the said Fredericksburg and
Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial
shall, subject to the supervision and direction of
the Secretary of the Interior, be in charge of
three commissioners, consisting of Army offi-
cers, civilians, or both, to be appointed by the
Secretary of the Interior, one of whom shall be
designated as chairman and another as sec-
retary of the commission.
(Feb. 14, 1927, ch. 127, § 4, 44 Stat. 1093; Ex. Ord.
No. 6166, § 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1,
July 28, 1933.)
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note
set out under section 425 of this
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