Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Administrative History

81st CONGRESS
1st Session

AN ACT To add to the Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park, Kentucky, certain land acquired by the United States for that purpose.

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the approximately six acres of land described in the following recorded deeds to the United States are hereby added to and made a part of the Abraham Lincoln National Historical Park in the State of Kentucky:

(a) Deed of conveyance to the United States, dated June 15, 1945, made and entered into by and between J. R. Howell and Mattie Johnson Howell, his wife, and W. L. Ferrill and Minnie Ferrill, his wife, of Hodgenville, Larue County, Kentucky, recorded on June 25, 1946, in deed book numbered 58, page 262, in the records of the county of Larue, Kentucky; and

(b) Quitclaim deed to the United States, made and entered into by and between Carl J. Howell and Dorothy Howell, his wife, of Hodgenville, Larue County, Kentucky, recorded on April 18, 1947, in deed book numbered 59, page 435, in the records of the County of Larue, Kentucky.

June 6, 1949