Chapter CDXXIX. appropriating ten thousand Dollars for a Statue of General John A
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CHAP. CDXXIX.— An Act appropriating ten thousand Dollars for a Statue of General John A. Rawlins.June 10, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the sum of ten thousandAppropriation for statue of General John A. Rawlins. dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to procure a life-sized statue of General John A. Rawlins, late Secretary of War, to be placed as a centre-piece of a fountain in Franklin square, the design to be approved of by the commissioner of public buildings and grounds, the architect of the Capitol extension, and the librarian of Congress.
Approved, June 10, 1872.