Chapter 639. Providing for a monument to mark the site of the Fort Phil Kearny massacre
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CHAP. 639.— An Act Providing for a monument to mark the site of the Fort Phil Kearny massacre. April 29, 1902. [[Public, No. 88](/us/pl/57/88).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Fort Phil Kearny massacre. Monument to mark site of. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to mark the site of the Fort Phil Kearny massacre, that occurred on the twenty-first of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, by erecting on said site a monument of rough masonry and an historical tablet: *Provided,* That the*Proviso*.Site. site of the proposed monument, of not less than one-fourth of an acre in area, situated upon the most sightly portion of Massacre Hill, shall lie donated to the United States.
Sec. 2. That, for the purpose of carrying this Art into effect the sumAppropriation. of fire hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may he necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any public moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under direction of the Secretary of War. Approved, April 29, 1902.