---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 450ll"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "450ll"
heading: "Booker T. Washington National Monument; acquisition of site"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/450ll"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §450ll. Booker T. Washington National Monument; acquisition of site


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), on behalf of the United States, by gift, purchase, or condemnation, all right, title, and interest in and to the real property located at Booker Washington Birthplace, Virginia.


## Source credit

(Apr. 2, 1956, ch. 158, § 1, 70 Stat. 86.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title of 2002 Amendment

Pub. L. 107–215, § 1, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1054, provided that: “This Act [enacting section 450ll–3 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Booker T. Washington National Monument Boundary Adjustment Act of 2002’.”

### Authorization of Appropriations

Section 4 of act Apr. 2, 1956, as amended by Pub. L. 92–272, title II, § 201(2), Apr. 11, 1972, 86 Stat. 120, provided that: “There are authorized to be appropriated such sums not to exceed $600,000 as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act [sections 450ll to 450ll–2 of this title].”