Chapter 268.
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CHAP. 268.— An act to furnish the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with specimens of arms, accouterments, and so forth, used by the armies in the battle of Gettysburg, for exhibition and preservation at the Gettysburg Museum.July 27, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association. Specimens of arms, etc., used in battle to be furnished.
That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to deliver to the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, specimens of the arms, equipment, projectiles, uniforms, and other material of war used by the armies in that battle (so far as may be practicable), for the purpose of exhibiting and preserving them for historical purposes in the museum at the house used by Major General Meade for headquarters, now owned by the said association, or at such other place as the directors of the Transportation.association may deem proper.
And that the transportation to Gettysburg be furnished by the Quartermaster’s Department of the United States from the appropriation tor the transportation of army supplies. Approved, July 27, 1892.