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[CITE: 16USC426e]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 426e. Lands acquired declared national battlefield; name

    Upon the ceding of jurisdiction by the legislature of the State of 
Tennessee and the report of the Attorney General of the United States 
that a perfect title has been acquired, the lands acquired under the 
provisions of sections 426 to 426j of this title, together with the area 
already inclosed within the national cemetery at the battlefield of 
Stones River and the Government reservation in said battlefield upon 
which is erected a large monument to the memory of the officers and 
soldiers of General Hazen's brigade who fell on the spot, are declared 
to be a national battlefield, to be known as the Stones River National 
Battlefield.

(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, Sec. 6, 44 Stat. 1400; Pub. L. 86-443, Sec. 2, 
Apr. 22, 1960, 74 Stat. 82.)

                         Change of Name

    ``Stones River National Battlefield'' and ``national battlefield'' 
substituted in text for ``Stones River National Park'' and ``national 
park'', respectively, in view of redesignation of Stones River National 
Military Park as Stones River National Battlefield by Pub. L. 86-443. 
See section 426l of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 426c, 426j, 426k, 426n of 
this title.
