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[CITE: 16USC433k]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER LXI--NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS
 
Sec. 433k. Whitman Mission National Historic Site; acquisition 
        of land; establishment, supervision and maintenance
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to acquire, 
on behalf of the United States, by gift, the site of the Indian mission 
established in 1836 by Marcus Whitman on the Walla Walla River in what 
is now Walla Walla County, Washington, together with such additional 
land, including a right-of-way to the nearest highway, as the Secretary 
may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
    The property acquired under the provisions of the first paragraph of 
this section shall constitute the Whitman Mission National Historic Site 
and shall be a public national memorial to Marcus Whitman and his wife, 
Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, who here established their Indian mission and 
school, and ministered to the physical and spiritual needs of the 
Indians until massacred with twelve others \1\ persons in 1847. The 
Director of the National Park Service, under the direction of the 
Secretary of the Interior, shall have the supervision, management, and 
control of such national historic site, and shall maintain and preserve 
it for the benefit and enjoyment of the people of the United States.
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(June 29, 1936, ch. 863, Secs. 1, 2, 49 Stat. 2028; Pub. L. 87-471, May 
31, 1962, 76 Stat. 90.)

                         Change of Name

    ``Whitman Mission National Historic Site'' and ``national historic 
site'' substituted in text for ``Whitman National Monument'' and 
``national monument'', respectively, pursuant to Pub. L. 87-471, which 
redesignated Whitman National Monument as Whitman Mission National 
Historic Site. See section 433n of this title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in 
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 433n of this title.
