---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 422a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "422a"
heading: "Acceptance of lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/422a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §422a. Acceptance of lands


The establishment of the Moores Creek National Battlefield shall be carried forward under the control and direction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, who is authorized to receive from the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of North Carolina a deed of conveyance to the United States of all the lands belonging to the said [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a), embracing thirty acres, more or less, and described more particularly in [section 422 of this title](/usc/16/422.md).


## Source credit

(June 2, 1926, ch. 448, § 2, 44 Stat. 685; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, July 28, 1933; Pub. L. 96–344, § 12, Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1136.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Battlefield” substituted in text for “Military Park” on authority of Pub. L. 96–344, § 12, Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1136, which redesignated Moores Creek National Military Park as Moores Creek National Battlefield.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Administrative functions of Moores Creek National Military Park transferred to Department of the Interior by Ex. Ord. Nos. 6166 and 6228, set out as a note under section 901 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.