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16 U.S.C. § 425b — Leasing lands for memorial
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into leases with the owners of such of the lands, works, defenses, and buildings thereon within the said Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial, as in his discretion it is unnecessary to forthwith acquire title to, and such leases shall be on such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and may contain options to purchase, subject to later acceptance if in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior it is as economical to purchase as condemn title to the property: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may enter into agreements upon such nominal terms as he may prescribe, permitting the present owners or their tenants to occupy or 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 battlefields, and that they will only cut trees or underbrush or disturb or remove the soil, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and that they will assist in caring 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 acquired by the United States, the proceeds from such agreements shall be applied by the Secretary of the Interior toward the maintenance of the park.
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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into leases with the owners of such of the lands, works, defenses, and buildings thereon within the said Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial, as in his discretion it is unnecessary to forthwith acquire title to, and such leases shall be on such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and may contain options to purchase, subject to later acceptance if in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior it is as economical to purchase as condemn title to the property: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may enter into agreements upon such nominal terms as he may prescribe, permitting the present owners or their tenants to occupy or 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 battlefields, and that they will only cut trees or underbrush or disturb or remove the soil, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and that they will assist in caring 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 acquired by the United States, the proceeds from such agreements shall be applied by the Secretary of the Interior toward the maintenance of the park.
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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
§ 425b
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 au-
thorized to be acquired, or so much thereof as
may be taken, and the highways and approaches
herein authorized to be constructed, are de-
clared 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 ‘‘Com-
bined 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
for the purposes of sections 425 to 425j of this
title the land above mentioned, or so much
thereof as he may deem necessary, together
with all such existing breastworks, earthworks,
gun emplacements, walls, defenses, shelters,
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