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Source
(Feb. 11, 1929, ch. 176, § 1, 45 Stat. 1162; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, July 28, 1933; Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, § 1, 48 Stat. 389; Aug. 11, 1939, ch. 686, 53 Stat. 1405; Pub. L. 86–231, Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 466.)
Change of Name
Pub. L. 86–231 substituted “Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site” for “Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park”.
Act Aug. 11, 1939, substituted “Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park” for “Abraham Lincoln National Park”.
Transfer of Functions
All national parks, national monuments, and national cemeteries consolidated in an office of National Parks, Buildings and Reservations in Department of the Interior, at head of which should be a Director of National Parks, Buildings and Reservations, and cemeteries and parks of War Department transferred to Department of the Interior by Executive Order No. 6166, as amended by Executive Order No. 6228, set out in a note under section
901 of Title
5, Government Organization and Employees. This service designated the National Park Service in Department of the Interior by act Mar. 2, 1934.
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, §§ 1,
2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5.
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