---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 427"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "427"
heading: "Site of battle with Sioux Indians; purchase; erection of monument"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/427"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LX — National Military Parks"
---

# §427. Site of battle with Sioux Indians; purchase; erection of monument


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized and directed to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1), by condemnation or otherwise, such land as may be deemed appropriate, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, on the site of the battle with the Sioux Indians in which the commands of Major Marcus A. Reno and Major Frederick W. Benteen were engaged, and to erect thereon a suitable monument and historical tablet.


## Source credit

(Apr. 14, 1926, ch. 138, § 1, 44 Stat. 251.)