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16 U.S.C. § 425g — Protection of monuments, etc.
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If any person shall, except by permission of the Secretary of the Interior, destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any monument, column, statue, memorial structure, or work of art that shall be erected or placed upon the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall destroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other work for the protection or ornament of said park, or any portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle relic, tree or trees growing or being upon said park, or hunt within the limits of the park, or shall remove or destroy any breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelter or any part thereof constructed by the armies formerly engaged in the battles on the lands or approaches to the park, any person so offending and found guilty thereof before any justice of the peace of the county in which the offense may be committed, or any court of competent jurisdiction, shall for each and every such offense forfeit and pay a fine, in the discretion of the justice, according to the aggravation of the offense, of not less than $5 nor more than $50, one-half for the use of the park and the other half to the informer, to be enforced and recovered before such justice in like manner as debts of like nature were, on February 14, 1927, by law recoverable in the several counties where the offense may be committed.
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If any person shall, except by permission of the Secretary of the Interior, destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any monument, column, statue, memorial structure, or work of art that shall be erected or placed upon the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall destroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other work for the protection or ornament of said park, or any portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle relic, tree or trees growing or being upon said park, or hunt within the limits of the park, or shall remove or destroy any breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelter or any part thereof constructed by the armies formerly engaged in the battles on the lands or approaches to the park, any person so offending and found guilty thereof before any justice of the peace of the county in which the offense may be committed, or any court of competent jurisdiction, shall for each and every such offense forfeit and pay a fine, in the discretion of the justice, according to the aggravation of the offense, of not less than $5 nor more than $50, one-half for the use of the park and the other half to the informer, to be enforced and recovered before such justice in like manner as debts of like nature were, on February 14, 1927, by law recoverable in the several counties where the offense may be committed.
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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
§ 425k
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note
set out under section 425 of this title.
§ 425g. Protection of monuments, etc.
If any person shall, except by permission of
the Secretary of the Interior, destroy, mutilate,
deface, injure, or remove any monument, col-
umn, statue, memorial structure, or work of art
that shall be erected or placed upon the grounds
of the park by lawful authority, or shall destroy
or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other
work for the protection or ornament of said
park, or any portion thereof, or shall destroy,
cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure
any tree, bush, or shrubbery that may be grow-
ing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or
remove any timber, battle relic, tree or trees
growing or being upon said park, or hunt within
the limits of the park, or shall remove or de-
stroy any breastworks, earthworks, walls, or
other defenses or shelter or any part thereof
constructed by the armies formerly engaged in
the battles on the lands or approaches to the
park, any person so offending and found guilty
thereof before any justice of the peace of the
county in which the offense may be committed,
or any court of competent jurisdiction, shall for
each and every such offense forfeit and pay a
fine, in the discretion of the justice, according
to the aggravation of the offense, of not less
than $5 nor more than $50, one-half for the use
of the park and the other half to the informer,
to be enforced and recovered before such justice
in like manner as debts of like nature were, on
February 14, 1927, by law recoverable in the sev-
eral counties where the offense may be com-
mitted.
(Feb. 14, 1927, ch. 127,
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