Chapter CXIII. authoricing the Secretary of War to deliver condemned Ordnance to certain Soldiers’ monumental Associations
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CHAP. CXIII.— An Act authoricing the Secretary of War to deliver condemned Ordnance to certain Soldiers’ monumental Associations.April 22, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatCondemned ordnance for certain soldiers’ monumental associations;for national cemetery at Andersonville. the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized to deliver (if the same can be done without detriment to the government) four condemned cannon and sixteen cannonballs, for the purpose of ornamenting the grounds surrounding soldiers’ monuments, to each of the following associations, viz.:
To the Jefferson County, Oliio, Monumental Association; To the Washington County, Pennsylvania, Monument Association; To the Soldiers’ Monument Association at Cortland Village, New York; To the Hancock County, Ohio, Soldiers’ Monumental Association; To the Soldiers’ Monument Association at Greencastle, Indiana; To the Buchanan County, Iowa, Soldiers’ Monument Association; To the Youngstown, Ohio, Soldiers’ Monument Association; And a like number to the Superintendent of the National Cemetery at Andersonville, Georgia, to be placed in said cemetery.
Approved, April 22, 1872.