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

# §81c. Addition of lands


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 and/or accept by donation, in behalf of the United States, such lands, easements, and buildings comprising the former Governor Berkeley’s mansion and homestead in James City County and Carter’s Grove mansion and homestead in the same county, and the Rosewell mansion and homestead in Gloucester County as are desirable for the proper rounding out of the boundaries and for the administrative control of the Colonial National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and such lands as are necessary for parkways, not to exceed five hundred feet wide, to connect said mansions to the said Colonial National Historical [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), the title and evidence of title to lands acquired to be satisfactory to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior: Provided, That the said [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands and/or improvements shall be made only from such funds as may be appropriated pursuant to the authorization of [section 81f of this title](/usc/16/81f.md).


## Source credit

(June 5, 1936, ch. 525, §§ 1, 2, 49 Stat. 1483.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act July 3, 1930, ch. 837, 46 Stat. 855, which comprises this subchapter.

Section was formerly classified to section 443a–1 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Act June 5, 1936, ch. 525, § 2, 49 Stat. 1483, provided: “That the area now within the Colonial National Monument, together with such additions as may hereafter be made thereto, pursuant to section 1 hereof, shall be known as the ‘Colonial National Historical Park’, under which name the aforesaid national park shall be entitled to receive and to use all moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the Colonial National Monument.”