---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 407m–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "407m–1"
heading: "Acquisition of additional lands and buildings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/407m-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LI — Independence National Historical Park"
---

# §407m–1. Acquisition of additional lands and buildings


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by donation or with donated funds, or to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by purchase, the land and buildings immediately adjacent to, but not including, the St. George’s Methodist Church property, which land and buildings are identified generally as 318, 320, and 322 New Street, for inclusion in the Independence National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3): Provided, That the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall first enter into an agreement with the proprietor or proprietors of the St. George’s Methodist Church property, such agreement to contain the usual and customary provisions for the protection and physical maintenance of said church property, without expense to the United States, in keeping with, but not as a part of, the nearby Independence National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and providing for its continued use, without limitation or control, for customary church purposes.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–54, § 1, June 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 88.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as a part of act June 28, 1948, ch. 687, 62 Stat. 1061, as amended, which comprises this subchapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Appropriations

Pub. L. 86–54, § 2, June 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 88, provided that: “There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums, not exceeding $25,000, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of section 1 of this Act [this section].”