Chapter 1310. To provide for the erection, at Fredericksburg, Virginia, of the monument to the memory of General Hugh Mercer, which was ordered by Congress on the eighth day of April, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, should be erected
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CHAP. 1310.— An Act To provide for the erection, at Fredericksburg, Virginia, of the monument to the memory of General Hugh Mercer, which was ordered by Congress on the eighth day of April, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, should be erected. June 28, 1902.[[Public, No. 191](/us/pl/57/191).] Whereas the Congress of the United States, on the eighth day of Preamble. April, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, agreed to the erection of a monument to the memory of General Hugh Mercer, at Fredericksburg, in the State of Virginia, and prescribed an inscription to be placed thereon; and Whereas up to this time nothing has been done toward carrying into effect the action then taken:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of twenty-five General Hugh Mercer.Appropriation for erection of a monument at Fredericksburg, Va., to. thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the erection, at Fredericksburg, in the State of Virginia, of a monument to the memory of General Hugh Mercer, upon which shall be inscribed these words:
Sacred to the memory of Inscription. HUGH MERCER, Brigadier-general in the army of The United States; He died on the 12th of January, 1777, of the Wounds he received on the 3d of the same month, Near Princetown, in New-Jersey, Bravely defending the Liberties of America. The Congress of the United States, In testimony of his virtues, and their gratitude, Have caused this monument to be erected. which said sum shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary Expenditures. of War, or such officer as he may designate, and in such sums as the work may require from time to time: *Provided*, That the city of Fredericksburg, *Proviso*.Site. or the citizens thereof, shall cede and convey to the United States such suitable site as may, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, be required for said monument.
Approved, June 28, 1902.