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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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.
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