[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC426e]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
Sec. 426e. Lands acquired declared national battlefield; name
Upon the ceding of jurisdiction by the legislature of the State of
Tennessee and the report of the Attorney General of the United States
that a perfect title has been acquired, the lands acquired under the
provisions of sections 426 to 426j of this title, together with the area
already inclosed within the national cemetery at the battlefield of
Stones River and the Government reservation in said battlefield upon
which is erected a large monument to the memory of the officers and
soldiers of General Hazen's brigade who fell on the spot, are declared
to be a national battlefield, to be known as the Stones River National
Battle
