§81c — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

Gives the Secretary of the Interior the power to buy or accept donations, for the United States, of lands, easements, and buildings that include Governor Berkeley’s mansion and homestead and Carter’s Grove mansion and homestead in James City County, and the Rosewell mansion and homestead in Gloucester County. The land can be bought to finish and manage the Colonial National Historical Park and to make parkways up to 500 feet wide to connect those mansions to the park. The Secretary must be satisfied with the title and proof of ownership, and purchases or improvements can only be paid for with money appropriated under section 81f of this title.

Title 16, §81c

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The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to acquire by purchase and/or accept by donation, in behalf of the United States, such lands, easements, and buildings comprising the former Governor Berkeley’s mansion and homestead in James City County and Carter’s Grove mansion and homestead in the same county, and the Rosewell mansion and homestead in Gloucester County as are desirable for the proper rounding out of the boundaries and for the administrative control of the Colonial National Historical Park, and such lands as are necessary for parkways, not to exceed five hundred feet wide, to connect said mansions to the said Colonial National Historical Park, the title and evidence of title to lands acquired to be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That the said acquisition of lands and/or improvements shall be made only from such funds as may be appropriated pursuant to the authorization of section 81f of this title.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was not enacted as part of act July 3, 1930, ch. 837, 46 Stat. 855, which comprises this subchapter. Section was formerly classified to section 443a–1 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Act June 5, 1936, ch. 525, § 2, 49 Stat. 1483, provided: “That the area now within the Colonial National Monument, together with such additions as may hereafter be made thereto, pursuant to section 1 hereof, shall be known as the ‘Colonial National Historical Park’, under which name the aforesaid national park shall be entitled to receive and to use all moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the Colonial National Monument.”

§81c Addition of lands