---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 81a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "81a"
heading: "Location and boundaries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/81a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter IX — Colonial National Historical Park"
---

# §81a. Location and boundaries


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized and directed to make an examination of Jamestown Island, parts of the city of Williamsburg, and the Yorktown battlefield, all in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Virginia, and [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) for highways to connect said island, city, and battlefield with a view to determining the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) or [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) thereof desirable for inclusion in the said Colonial National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), not to exceed two thousand five hundred acres of the said battlefield or five hundred feet in width as to such connecting [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), and upon completion thereof he shall make appropriate recommendations to the President, who shall establish the boundaries of said national [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) by proclamation: Provided, That the boundaries so established may be enlarged or diminished by subsequent proclamation or proclamations of the President upon the recommendations of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, any such enlargement only to include lands donated to the United States or purchased by the United States without resort to condemnation.


## Source credit

(July 3, 1930, ch. 837, § 2, 46 Stat. 855; June 5, 1936, ch. 525, § 2, 49 Stat. 1483.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 443a of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Act June 5, 1936, changed “Colonial National Monument” to “Colonial National Historical Park”.

### Executive Documents

### Boundaries of Park

Boundaries were established by Presidential Proc. No. 1929, Dec. 30, 1930, 46 Stat. 3041, and Proc. No. 2055, Aug. 22, 1933, 48 Stat. 1706.