Chapter 50.
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CHAP. 50.— An act to provide for the erection of a monument to the memory of Major General the Baron De Kalb. Feb. 19, 1883. Whereas, in October, seventeen hundred and eighty, the Congress of the United States passed the following resolution:Monument to Major-General the Baron De Kalb.Preamble. " “In Congress, October, 1780. “*Resolved,* That a monument be erected to the memory of the late Major-General the Baron De Kalb, in the city of Annapolis, in the State of Maryland, with the following inscription:
“‘Sacred to the memory of the Baron De Kalb, knight of tho Royal Order of Military Merit, brigadier of the armies of France, and major-general in the service of the United States of America. Having served with honor and reputation for three years, he gave a last and glorious proof of his attachment to tho liberties of mankind and the cause of America in the action near Camden, in the State of South Carolina, on the sixteenth of August, seventeen hundred and eighty, where, leading on the troops of the Maryland and Delaware lines against superior numbers, and animating them by his example to deeds of valor, he was pierced with many wounds, and on the nineteenth following expired, in the forty-eighth year of his age.
“‘The Congress of the United States of America-, in gratitude to his zeal, service, and merit, have erected this monument;’” Therefore, " *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriation. That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of erecting the monument authorized by the resolution of Congress above recited; and the Secretary of State shall have the management and control of the erection of said monument.
Approved, February 19, 1883.