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[CITE: 16USC211]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER XXIII--ABRAHAM LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
 
Sec. 211. Acceptance of title; terms and conditions; admission 
        fees
        
    The United States of America accepts title to the lands mentioned in 
the deed of gift or conveyance in possession of the Secretary of War on 
July 17, 1916, together with all the buildings and appurtenances 
thereon, especially the log cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born and 
the memorial hall inclosing the same, which deed of conveyance was 
executed on the 11th day of April, 1916, by the Lincoln Farm 
Association, a corporation, to the United States of America, describing 
certain lands situated near the town of Hodgenville, county of Larue, 
State of Kentucky, which lands are more particularly identified and 
described in said deed or conveyance. The title to such lands, 
buildings, and appurtenances is accepted upon the terms and conditions 
stated in said deed or conveyance, namely: That the land therein 
described, together with the buildings and appurtenances thereon, shall 
be forever dedicated to the purposes of a national park or reservation, 
the United States of America agreeing to protect and preserve the said 
lands, buildings, and appurtenances, and especially the log cabin in 
which Abraham Lincoln was born and the memorial hall inclosing the same, 
from spoliation, destruction, and further disintegration, to the end 
that they may be preserved for all time, so far as may be; and further 
agreeing that there shall never be any charge or fee made to or asked 
from the public for admission to the said park or reservation.

(July 17, 1916, ch. 247, Sec. 1, 39 Stat. 385; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, 
title II, Sec. 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

                         Change of Name

    Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of 
Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of 
act July 26, 1947, c. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act 
July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 
1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted ``Title 10, 
Armed Forces'' which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued military 
Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of 
the Army.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of control of Abraham Lincoln National Park [now Abraham 
Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site] to the Office of National 
Parks, Buildings and Reservations in the Interior Department, see 
section 2 of Ex. Ord. No. 6166, June 10, 1933, set out as a note under 
section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 215, 217, 218a of this 
title.
