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[CITE: 16USC423c]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 423c. Duties of commission

    It shall be the duties of the commissioners, under the direction of 
the Secretary of the Interior, to superintend the opening or repair of 
such roads as may be necessary to the purposes of the battlefield, and 
to ascertain and mark with historical tablets or otherwise, as the 
Secretary of the Interior may determine, all breastworks, earthworks, 
walls, or other defenses or shelters, lines of battle, location of 
troops, buildings, and other historical points of interest within the 
battlefield or in its vicinity, and the said commission in establishing 
the battlefield shall have authority, under the direction of the 
Secretary of the Interior, to employ such labor and service at rates to 
be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and to obtain such supplies 
and materials as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of 
sections 423, 423a, and 423b to 423h of this title.

(July 3, 1926, ch. 746, Sec. 4, 44 Stat. 822; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 2, 
June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, Sec. 1, July 28, 1933; Pub. L. 87-603, 
Sec. 1, Aug. 24, 1962, 76 Stat. 403.)

                         Change of Name

    ``Battlefield'' substituted in text for ``park'' in view of 
redesignation of Petersburg National Military Park as Petersburg 
National Battlefield by Pub. L. 87-603. See section 423h-1 of this 
title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under 
section 423 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 423d, 423h-1, 423h-2 of this 
title.
