Chapter 148. donating cannon and cannon-balls for use and ornament about a suitable soldiers’ monument at Portland, Maine
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CHAP. 148.— An Act donating cannon and cannon-balls for use and ornament about a suitable soldiers’ monument at Portland, Maine.May 17, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Condemned cannon, etc., donated Post Bosworth, G. A. R., Port land, Me. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to deliver, if the same can be done without detriment to the government, to Post Bosworth, Grand Army of the Republic, Portland, in the State of Maine, four condemned cast-iron cannon and sixteen cannonballs, for use and ornament about a suitable monument to be erected by said post in honor of the deceased soldiers of the late war.
Approved, May 17, 1882.