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[CITE: 16USC425a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 425a. Acquisition of lands

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to cause condemnation 
proceedings to be instituted in the name of the United States under the 
provisions of sections 257 and 258 of title 40, to acquire title to the 
lands, interests therein, or rights pertaining thereto within the said 
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial, 
authorized to be acquired in section 425 of this title, and the United 
States shall be entitled to immediate possession upon the filing of the 
petition in condemnation in the United States District Court for the 
Eastern District of Virginia: Provided, That when the owner of such 
lands, interests therein, or rights pertaining thereto shall fix a price 
for the same, which in the opinion of the commission, referred to in 
section 425c of this title, and the Secretary of the Interior, shall be 
reasonable, the Secretary may purchase the same without further delay: 
Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to 
accept on behalf of the United States, donations of lands, interests 
therein or rights pertaining thereto required for the said 
Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battle Fields Memorial: And 
provided further, That no public money shall be expended for title to 
any lands until a written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had 
in favor of the validity of title thereto.

(Feb. 14, 1927, ch. 127, Sec. 2, 44 Stat. 1092; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, 
Sec. 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, Sec. 1, July 28, 1933.)

                       References in Text

    Section 258 of title 40, referred to in text, was omitted from the 
Code as superseded by rule 71A of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 
set out in the Appendix to Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under 
section 425 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 425, 425d, 425e, 425j, 425k 
of this title.
