16 U.S.C. § 423c: Duties of commission

Summary

The commissioners must, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, oversee opening or repairing any roads needed for the battlefield. They must find and mark — with signs or other markers as the Secretary decides — defenses, battle lines, troop locations, buildings, and other historical points on or near the battlefield. While establishing the battlefield, the commission may hire workers and buy supplies and materials needed to carry out sections 423, 423a, and 423b to 423h, with pay rates set by the Secretary of the Interior.

Title 16, §423c

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It shall be the duties of the commissioners, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to superintend the opening or repair of such roads as may be necessary to the purposes of the battlefield, and to ascertain and mark with historical tablets or otherwise, as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, all breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelters, lines of battle, location of troops, buildings, and other historical points of interest within the battlefield or in its vicinity, and the said commission in establishing the battlefield shall have authority, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to employ such labor and service at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and to obtain such supplies and materials as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of section 423, 423a, and 423b to 423h of this title.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Battlefield” substituted in text for “park” in view of redesignation of Petersburg National Military Park as Petersburg National Battlefield by Pub. L. 87–603. See section 423h–1 of this title.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 423 of this title.

§423c Duties of Commission