Chapter CCCIII. authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver condemned Ordnance to certain Organizations for monumental Purposes
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CHAP. CCCIII.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver condemned Ordnance to certain Organizations for monumental Purposes.March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatCondemned ordnance to organizations for monumental purposes at the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to deliver, if the same can be done without detriment to the govern ment, four condemned cannon and sixteen cannonballs to each of the following-named organizations for the purpose of ornamenting burial-grounds of deceased soldiers:
ToPortland; the Army anil Navy Union of Portland, Maine; ToSyracuse; the municipal authorities of the city of Syracuse, New York; ToAnsonia; the Grand Army of the Republic, at Ansonia, Connecticut; ToFitchburg; the Soldiers’ Monument Association at Fitchburg, Massachusetts; AndSturgis. to the municipal authorities of the village of Sturgis, Michigan, one cannon and four cannonballs. Approved, March 3, 1873.