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[CITE: 16USC407n]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
          SUBCHAPTER LI--INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
 
Sec. 407n. Cooperative agreements between Secretary of the 
        Interior and City of Philadelphia; contents
        
    In furtherance of the general purposes of this subchapter as 
prescribed in section 407m of this title, the Secretary of the Interior 
is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with the city of 
Philadelphia to assist in the preservation and interpretation of the 
property known as the Independence Hall National Historic Site and with 
the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia to assist in the preservation 
and interpretation of Carpenters' Hall, in connection with the 
Independence National Historical Park. Such agreements shall contain, 
but shall not be limited to, provisions that the Secretary of the 
Interior, through the National Park Service, shall have right of access 
at all reasonable times to all public portions of the property now 
within Independence Hall National Historic Site and to Carpenters' Hall 
for the purpose of conducting visitors through such buildings and 
grounds and interpreting them to the public, that no changes or 
alterations shall be made in the property within the Independence Hall 
National Historic Site, including its buildings and grounds, or in 
Carpenters' Hall, except by mutual agreement between the Secretary of 
the Interior and the other parties to the contracts.

(June 28, 1948, ch. 687, Sec. 2, 62 Stat. 1061.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in 
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 407m of this title.
