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[CITE: 16USC213]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER XXIII--ABRAHAM LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
 
Sec. 213. Execution of instruments necessary to carry out 
        purposes of gift
        
    The President of the United States of America and the Secretary of 
War are authorized to execute in the name of the United States of 
America, such instrument or instruments as may be or may become 
necessary to comply with or carry out the terms and conditions of such 
gift or gifts and to secure the full benefit therefrom.

(July 17, 1916, ch. 247, Sec. 3, 39 Stat. 386; 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, ch. 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act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 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 a Secretary 
of the Army.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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