---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 433h–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "433h–1"
heading: "Acquisition of additional lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/433h-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §433h–1. Acquisition of additional lands


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 purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, subject to the acreage limitation contained in [section 433g of this title](/usc/16/433g.md), the site known as the Bloody Marsh Battle [memorial](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=2) monument located on Saint Simon Island, Georgia, together with such additional land, including the marshland across the river to the west of Fort Frederica National Monument, or interest in land, as in the judgment of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior might be desirable for the protection of such national monument. Such lands or interest in lands acquired by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) pursuant to this section shall be made a part of the Fort Frederica National Monument.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–401, § 2, May 16, 1958, 72 Stat. 110.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Appropriations

Pub. L. 85–401, § 3, May 16, 1958, 72 Stat. 110, provided that: “There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts, not to exceed $20,000, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act [this section].”