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[CITE: 16USC450u]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER LXI--NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS
 
Sec. 450u. Homestead National Monument of America; establishment

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to acquire, 
on behalf of the United States, by gift, purchase, or condemnation, the 
south half of the northwest quarter, the northeast quarter of the 
northwest quarter, and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter 
section 26, township 4 north, range 5 east, of the sixth principal 
meridian, Gage County, Nebraska, the same being the first homestead 
entered upon under the General Homestead Act of May 20, 1862, by Daniel 
Freeman, and that when so acquired, the said area be designated ``The 
Homestead National Monument of America.''

(Mar. 19, 1936, ch. 157, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 1184.)

                       References in Text

    The General Homestead Act, referred to in text, is act May 20, 1862, 
ch. 75, 12 Stat. 392. See chapter 7 (Sec. 161 et seq.) of Title 43, 
Public Lands.


                         Freeman School Addition

    Pub. L. 91-411, Sept. 25, 1970, 84 Stat. 863, provided for addition 
of the Freeman School to the Homestead National Monument of America in 
Nebraska and authorized appropriation of not more than $50,000 for 
rehabilitation and development of the Freeman School.
