Chapter 169. To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Navy to donate one condemned cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to the cemetery association in the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, to be used at or near the foot of the soldiers’ monument in said cemetery
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CHAP. 169.— An Act To authorize and direct the Secretary of the Navy to donate one condemned cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to the cemetery association in the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, to be used at or near the foot of the soldiers’ monument in said cemetery.May 11, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Navy Condemned cannon. Donated to cemetery, St.
Paul, Minn. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate one condemned cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to the cemetery association in the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, for the purpose of placing the same at or near the monument erected to the memory of Union soldiers who are buried in the said cemetery: *Provided,* That in the *Proviso.* Condition. judgment of the Secretary of the Navy such articles can be spared without detriment to the public interests: *And provided further,* That Expense. the United States shall not be subjected to any expense on account of such donation.
Approved, May 11, 1896.