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[CITE: 16USC447b]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER LXI--NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS
 
Sec. 447b. Donation of property; condemnation proceedings

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept donations of 
land, interests in land, buildings, structures, and other property, 
within the boundaries of said national monument as determined and fixed 
hereunder and donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance 
thereof, the title and evidence of title to lands acquired to be 
satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That he may 
acquire on behalf of the United States under any donated funds by 
purchase when purchasable at prices deemed by him reasonable, otherwise 
by condemnation under the provisions of sections 257 and 258 of title 
40, such tracts of land within the said national monument as may be 
necessary for the completion thereof.

(June 14, 1934, ch. 519, Sec. 2, 48 Stat. 959.)

                       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Code as superseded by rule 71A of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 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.
