The Department of Property and Supplies,¹ with the approval of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase, condemnation, lease or gift, in the name of the Commonwealth, a tract or tracts of land adjoining the Daniel Boone Homestead property of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, and in particular a tract comprising approximately forty acres along the southern boundary thereof, for the purpose of enlarging and protecting such Daniel Boone Homestead property upon which the Commonwealth has made extensive improvements and which the Commonwealth is in the process of restoring to the original.