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[CITE: 16USC422]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 422. Moores Creek National Battlefield; establishment

    In order to preserve for historical and professional military study 
one of the most memorable battles of the Revolutionary War, the 
battlefield of Moores Creek, in the State of North Carolina, is declared 
to be a national battlefield whenever the title to the same shall have 
been acquired by the United States; that is to say, the area inclosed by 
the following lines:
    Those tracts or parcels of land in the county of Pender, and State 
of North Carolina, more particularly described as follows:
    First tract: Beginning at a stone at the run of Moores Creek, on the 
east bank of same, about twenty poles (in a straight line) above the new 
iron bridge, and running thence parallel to William Walker's line, south 
sixty-two and one-half degrees west eleven chains to a stake; thence 
south seven and one-half degrees east three and six-tenths chains to a 
stone at the south edge of the old stage road; thence along the south 
edge of said road south forty-six degrees east about five chains and 
eighty links to a stone; thence south thirty-seven and one-fourth 
degrees west fourteen chains and twelve links to a stone; thence north 
sixty-two and one-half degrees west ten chains and seventy-five links to 
a stone, a corner (4) of an eight-acre tract which the parties of the 
first part conveyed to Governor D. L. Russell, for the purposes 
aforesaid, by a deed dated January 1898, and recorded in Pender County; 
thence with the lines of said tract north thirty-nine and one-half 
degrees east thirteen chains and twenty-seven links to a stake, the 
third corner of the said eight-acre tract; thence north fifty-one 
degrees west four chains to a stake about twenty feet from the old 
entrenchment (the second corner of the eight-acre tract); thence with 
the first line reversed north forty-four degrees west two chains to a 
sweet gum at the run of Moores Creek (the first corner of the eight-acre 
tract); thence up and with the run of said creek to the first station, 
containing twenty acres.
    Second tract: Beginning at a sweet gum on the eastern edge of Moores 
Creek, running thence south forty-four degrees east two poles to a 
stake; thence south fifty-one degrees east four poles five links to a 
stake; thence south thirty-nine degrees west thirteen poles twenty-seven 
links to a stake; thence north fifty-one degrees west nine poles thirty-
one links to a stake in the edge of Moores Creek; thence northerly with 
the creek to the beginning, containing eight acres more or less.
    Third tract: Beginning at a cypress on the edge of the run of Moores 
Creek about twenty feet from the west end of the old entrenchments and 
running thence in a line parallel to and ten feet distance from the 
outside or east edge of the old line of entrenchments in all the various 
courses of the same to a stake ten feet distant on the east side of the 
north end of said entrenchments; thence a direct line to the run of said 
Moores Creek; thence down said creek to the beginning, containing two 
acres, be the same more or less (the intention is to include all lands 
now known and designated as Moores Creek battlefield and now so 
recognized as such and owned by the State of North Carolina), together 
with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging.
    The aforesaid tracts of land containing in the aggregate thirty 
acres, more or less, and being the property of the State of North 
Carolina, and the area thus inclosed shall be known as the Moores Creek 
National Battlefield.

(June 2, 1926, ch. 448, Sec. 1, 44 Stat. 684; Pub. L. 96-344, Sec. 12, 
Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1136.)

                         Change of Name

    In the first undesignated par., ``battlefield'' substituted for 
``military park'' and in last undesignated par., ``Battlefield'' 
substituted for ``Military Park'' on authority of Pub. L. 96-344, 
Sec. 12, Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1136, which redesignated Moores Creek 
National Military Park as Moores Creek National Battlefield.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 422a of this title.
