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

# §450r. Ackia Battleground National Monument; establishment


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized in his discretion to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1), by purchase or by condemnation and/or accept by donation in behalf of the United States, such lands, easements, and buildings not to exceed fifty acres, and when title satisfactory to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall have been vested in the United States such [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall be, upon proclamation of the President, established, dedicated, and set apart as a public monument for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall be known as the “Ackia Battleground National Monument”: Provided, That such [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall include the site of the Battle of Ackia.


## Source credit

(Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 755, § 2, 49 Stat. 897.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Inclusion in Natchez Trace Parkway

Ackia Battleground National Monument included in the Natchez Trace Parkway, see section 460–1 of this title.

### Executive Documents

### Boundaries of Monument

Boundaries established by Presidential Proc. No. 2307, Oct. 25, 1938, 3 F.R. 2579, 53 Stat. 2494.