---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 674b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "674b"
heading: "White Horse Hill National Game Preserve; acquisition of additional lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/674b"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §674b. White Horse Hill National Game Preserve; acquisition of additional lands


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1), by purchase or otherwise, after July 1, 1932, an [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of land not to exceed three thousand acres, at an average cost of not more than $10 per acre, with the improvements thereon, situated on the east and south of said [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) as described in [section 674a of this title](/usc/16/674a.md), within sections 10, [11](/usc/16/11.md), [12](/usc/16/12.md), [13](/usc/16/13.md), [14](/usc/16/14.md), [15](/usc/16/15.md), [22](/usc/16/22.md), [23](/usc/16/23.md), and [24](/usc/16/24.md), township 152 north, range 65 west, fifth principal meridian, said lands, upon [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) by the United States, to become a part of the White Horse Hill National Game [Preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 439, § 2, 46 Stat. 1509; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; Pub. L. 116–94, div. P, title IV, § 402(b), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 3191.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2019—Pub. L. 116–94 substituted “White Horse Hill National Game Preserve” for “Sullys Hill National Game Preserve” in text.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, transferred functions of Secretary of Agriculture relating to conservation of wildlife, game, and migratory birds to Secretary of the Interior.