Chapter 407. Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Navy to donate condemned cannon and condemned cannon balls to certain posts of the Grand Army of the Republic
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CHAP. 407.— An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Navy to donate condemned cannon and condemned cannon balls to certain posts of the Grand Army of the Republic. June 10, 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 NavyCondemned cannon.Donated Grand Army posts, Leavenworth and McLouth, Kans. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate one condemned cannon and condemned cannon balls for four pyramids to Shaw Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Leavenworth, Kansas, and also one condemned cannon and condemned cannon balls for four pyramids to McLouth Post, Numbered Two hundred and seventy-nine, Grand Army of the Republic, at McLouth, Kansas, for soldiers’ monuments to be erected at said cities: *Provided*, That, in the judgment of the Secretary*Provisos*.Condition. of the Navy, such articles can be spared without detriment to the public interest: *And provided further*, That the United States shall not beExpense. subjected to any expense on account of suck donation.
Received by the President, May 29, 1896. [Note by the Department of State.— The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]