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[CITE: 16USC459]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
         SUBCHAPTER LXIII--NATIONAL SEASHORE RECREATIONAL AREAS
 
Sec. 459. Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area; 
        conditional establishment; acquisition of lands
        
    When title to all the lands, except those within the limits of 
established villages, within boundaries to be designated by the 
Secretary of the Interior within the area of approximately one hundred 
square miles on the islands of Chicamacomico, Ocracoke, Bodie, Roanoke, 
and Collington, and the waters and the lands beneath the waters adjacent 
thereto shall have been vested in the United States, said area shall be, 
and is, established, dedicated, and set apart as a national seashore 
recreational area for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall 
be known as the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area: 
Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of 
public moneys any lands within the aforesaid area, but such lands shall 
be secured by the United States only by public or private donation.

(Aug. 17, 1937, ch. 687, Sec. 1, 50 Stat. 669; June 29, 1940, ch. 459, 
Sec. 1, 54 Stat. 702.)

                         Change of Name

    Words ``national seashore recreational area'' substituted in text 
for ``national seashore'' pursuant to act June 29, 1940.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 459a-1, 459a-2, 459a-3, 
459a-5a of this title.
