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[CITE: 16USC81e]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
            SUBCHAPTER IX--COLONIAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
 
Sec. 81e. Acquisition of property; condemnation proceedings

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept donations of 
land, interest in land, buildings, structures, and other property within 
the boundaries of said park as determined and fixed hereunder and 
donations of funds for the purchase and/or maintenance thereof, the 
evidence of title to such lands to be satisfactory to the Secretary of 
the Interior: Provided, That he may acquire on behalf of the United 
States 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 park as may be 
necessary for the completion thereof: Provided further, That 
condemnation proceedings herein provided for shall not be had, 
exercised, or resorted to as to lands belonging to the Association for 
the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, a corporation chartered under 
the laws of Virginia, or to the city of Williamsburg, Virginia, or to 
any other lands in said city except such lands as may be required for a 
right-of-way not exceeding two hundred feet in width through the city of 
Williamsburg to connect with highways or parkways leading from 
Williamsburg to Jamestown and to Yorktown.

(July 3, 1930, ch. 837, Sec. 3, 46 Stat. 856; June 5, 1936, ch. 525, 
Sec. 2, 49 Stat. 1483.)

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Code as superseded by rule 71A of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 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

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 443b of this title.

                         Change of Name

    Act June 5, 1936, changed ``Colonial National Monument'' to 
``Colonial National Historical Park.''
