Chapter CCCLX. donating condemned Cannon and Cannon-balls to certain Organizations for monumental Purposes
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CHAP. CCCLX.— An Act donating condemned Cannon and Cannon-balls to certain Organizations for monumental Purposes.June 8, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of War be,Condemned cannon and cannon-balls granted to certain organizations for monumental purposes. and he hereby is, authorized to deliver, if the same can be done without detriment to the government, four condemned cannon and sixteen cannon-balls to each of the following-named organizations, for the purpose of ornamenting burial-grounds of deceased soldiers:
To the John Russell Lowell Encampment, Post Number Seven, Grand Army of the Republic, of Boston, Massachusetts; To the Second Regiment Infantry, National Guards, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; To the Philip H. Sheridan Post Number Thirty-four, Grand Army of the Republic, of Salem, Massachusetts; To the mayor of the city of Worcester, Massachusetts; To the State Fencibles, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; To the commissioners of the State of New York, for erecting a monument on the grave of Baron Steuben, in the town of Steuben, New York;
To the trustees of Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, Connecticut; To the Soldiers’ Monument Association of Middletown, Connecticut; To the Soldiers’ Monument Association of Meriden, Connecticut; To the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument Association of Lebanon, Pennsylvania; To the Post Number One hundred and forty-six, Grand Army of the Republic, at Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; To the Soldiers’ Monument Association of Kane County, Illinois. Approved, June 8, 1872.