Chapter 223. Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Navy to donate one condemned cannon and condemned cannon balls to U
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CHAP. 223.— An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Navy to donate one condemned cannon and condemned cannon balls to U. S. Grant Post, Numbered Seventy-two, Grand Army of the Republic, of Washington, Indiana, Department of Indiana, and for other purposes.May 21, 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 Grand Army post, Washington, Ind., and monument associations, Chicago, Ill., and Londonderry, N.
H. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate one condemned cannon and condemned cannon balls for two pyramids to U. S. Grant Post, Post, Numbered Seventy-two, Grand Army of the Republic, of Washington, Indiana, Department of Indiana; and that the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate two pieces of condemned cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to the Saint Boniface Union Soldiers’ Monument and Memorial Association, of Chicago, Illinois, for the soldiers’ monument now erected in Saint Boniface Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois; also two cannon and a pyramid of cannon balls to the Soldiers’ Monument Association at Londonderry, New Hampshire: *Provided,* That in the judgment of the *Provisos.* Condition.
Secretary of the Navy such articles can be spared without detriment to the public interests: *And provided further,* That the United States Expense. shall not be subjected to any expense on account of such donation. Approved, May 21, 1896.