B-10122: Jul 28, 1950

This decision responds to a letter from the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary)to the Comptroller General of the United States, wherein the Secretary wishes to use appropriated funds for the National Park Service to purchase a tract of land adjacent to the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. The purpose of purchasing the land is to prevent it from being used in a way contrary to the highway's memoria...

B-10122: May 20, 1940

The Act of May 23, 1928, provided for constructing a highway from Washington, D.C. to Mount Vernon, Virginia, such highway being usually referred to as the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway.Accordingly, I have to advise that the unexpended balance of the funds in the no-year appropriation for the construction of the highway is not available for the acquisition of the land here in question unless and u...