Regulations for the National Military Parks and the Statutes Under which They Were Organized and are Administered |
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28 Stat 30 Stat acquire act of February ascertain and mark August 18 AUTHORIZED TO MARK BATTLE BY MONUMENTS Battle of Shiloh battlefield battles of Chickamauga boundaries cannon balls Chattanooga National Military Chattanooga National Park Chicka Chickamauga and Chattanooga commis commissioners or superintendent condemned cannon Confederate earthworks Crawfish Springs Creek deem reasonable deface demnation direction disbursements duty eighteen hundred erected or placed establishment February 11 Georgia Gettysburg Battlefield Gettysburg National ground hereby appropriated hereby authorized hundred and eighty-eight hunt injure any tree INJURY TO MONUMENTS jurisdiction lands and roads lease limits lines of battle markers mauga Missionary Ridge National Military Park offense park is prohibited park.-Sec portion thereof Provided purchase purpose regulations REPORTED ANNUALLY retary Rossville Secretary of War Shiloh National Military siege and defense sioners statutes Tennessee Tennessee River thence thousand dollars tion Treasury not otherwise troops engaged United Vicksburg National Military
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Page 29 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 38 - ... the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall destroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other work for the protection or ornament of said park, or any portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery...
Page 24 - ... destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle relic, tree or trees growing or being upon...
Page 26 - Any act of Congress which plainly and directly tends to enhance the respect and love of the citizen for the institutions of his country and to quicken and strengthen his motives to defend them, and which is germane to and ultimately connected with and appropriate to the exercise of one or all of the powers granted by Congress must be valid.
Page 28 - For continuing the work of surveying, locating, and preserving the lines of battle at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and for purchasing, opening, constructing, and improving avenues along the portions occupied by the various commands of the Armies of the Potomac and Northern Virginia on that field, 'and for fencing the same; and for the purchase...
Page 20 - ... the Secretary of War shall have authority to employ, at such compensation as he may deem reasonable and just, to be paid out of the appropriation made by this act, some person recognized as well informed in regard to the details of the battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga, and who shall have actively participated in one of those battles, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War from and after the passage of this act, through the commissioners, and their...
Page 38 - ... destroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other work for the protection or ornament of said park, or any portion thereof, or shall willfully destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery...
Page 18 - General of the United States that the title to the lands thus ceded is perfect, the following described highways in those States are hereby declared to be approaches to and parts of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park as established by the second section of this act, to wit: First. The Missionary Ridge Crest road from Sherman Heights at the north end of Missionary Ridge, in Tennessee, where the said road enters upon the ground occupied by the Army of the Tennessee under Major-General...
Page 33 - ... therein : Provided, That before any such lines are permanently designated the position of the lines and the proposed methods, of marking them by monuments, tablets, or otherwise shall be submitted...
Page 16 - ... destroyed, defaced, injured, cut, or removed, or by imprisonment for not less than fifteen days and not more than one year, or by both fine and imprisonment.