§ 425. — Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial; establishment.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC425]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
Sec. 425. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields
Memorial; establishment
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
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, or other historical points as the Secretary of the
Interior may deem necessary, whether shown on said index map sheet or
not, and together also with such additional land as the Secretary of the
Interior may deem necessary for monuments, markers, tablets, roads,
highways, paths, approaches, and to carry out the general purposes of
said sections. As title is acquired to parts of the land herein
authorized to be acquired, the Secretary of the Interior may proceed
with the establishment of the park upon such portions so acquired, and
the remaining portions of the lands desired shall be respectively
brought within said park as titles to said portions are severally
acquired.
(Feb. 14, 1927, ch. 127, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 1091; Ex. Ord. No. 6166,
Sec. 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, Sec. 1, July 28, 1933.)
References in Text
Act June 7, 1924, ch. 339, 43 Stat. 646, referred to in text, was
temporary and was not classified to the Code.
Transfer of Functions
Administrative functions of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County
Battle Fields Memorial transferred to Department of the Interior by Ex.
Ord. Nos. 6166 and 6228, set out as notes under section 901 of Title 5,
Government Organization and Employees.
National Park Service substituted for Office of National Parks,
Buildings, and Reservations referred to in Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 2, by
act Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 389.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 425a, 425d, 425e, 425j, 425k
of this title.
