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[CITE: 16USC429]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 429. Brices Cross Roads and Tupelo battlefields in 
        Mississippi; establishment
        
    For the purpose of commemorating the battles of Brices Cross Roads, 
Mississippi, and Tupelo, Mississippi, the Secretary of the Army is 
authorized and directed to (1) acquire not to exceed one acre of land, 
free of cost to the United States, at each of the above-named battle 
fields, (2) fence each parcel of land so acquired, (3) build an approach 
to each such parcel of land, and (4) erect a suitable marker on each 
such parcel of land.

(Feb. 21, 1929, ch. 289, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 1254; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, 
title II, Sec. 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

                         Change of Name

    Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of 
Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of 
act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of 
act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 
1041, 70 A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted ``Title 
10, Armed Forces'' which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued military 
Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of 
the Army.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 429a, 429a-1 of this title.
