Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§430h–2 Exchange of Certain Lands Authorized

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LX — NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS › § 430h–2

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior may transfer to the city of Vicksburg for school use a tract of park land containing three and one‑tenth acres, more or less, and may transfer to the Mississippi State Highway Commission for a weighing‑station site a tract containing one and thirty‑two hundredths acres, more or less; both tracts are now under cancelable permits. In return, the city and the commission must transfer to the United States, for the park, land or interests from tracts 199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, and 216 on map Numbered NMP–VIC–7007 that are mutually agreed and approximately equal in value.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §430h–2

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In order to further the consolidation of land comprising Vicksburg National Military Park, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, upon such terms and conditions as he may deem necessary, to transfer to the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, for school purposes, a tract of park land containing three and one-tenth acres, more or less, now under revocable permit to said city, acting through its board of education, and to transfer to the Mississippi State Highway Commission a tract of park land containing one and thirty-two hundredths acres, more or less, now under revocable permit to said commission for use as a site for a weighing station: Provided, That, from among the land designated as tracts 199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, and 216 on map Numbered NMP–VIC–7007, said city and highway commission shall transfer in exchange to the United States, for addition to Vicksburg National Military Park, such land or interests therein as may be mutually agreed upon and which are approximately equal in value to the properties being acquired in each case.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 430h–2

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102