Chapter 854. To provide for the erection at Washington, District of Columbia, of statues to the memory of Brigadier-General Count Pulaski and Major-General Baron von Steuben, of the Continental Army
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CHAP. 854.— An Act To provide for the erection at Washington, District of Columbia, of statues to the memory of Brigadier-General Count Pulaski and Major-General Baron von Steuben, of the Continental Army. February 27, 1903.[[Public, No. 120](/us/pl/34/120).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, District of Columbia.Erection of a monument to Count Pulaski authorized. That there shall be erected in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, a statue of Brigadier- General Count Casimir Pulaski, of Poland, who came to America and, after declaring his intention to become a citizen of the Republic, offered his sword to Washington, under whose leadership in the great struggle for American Independence he lost his life at the siege of Savannah, Georgia, October eleventh, seventeen hundred and seventy-nine;
Appropriation.and for the purpose of procuring and erecting said statue with a suitable pedestal, and for the preparation of a site, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, Commission.the same to be expended under the direction of a commission to be composed of the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Committee on the Library of the Senate, the chairman of the Committee on the Library of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-seventh Congress, and the president of the Pulaski monument Polish central committee.
Sec. 2. Erection of a monument to Baron Steuben.That there shall be erected in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, a statue of Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand, Baron von Steuben, major-general and inspector-general in the Continental Army; and for the purpose of procuring and erecting Appropriation.said statue with a suitable pedestal, and for the preparation of a site, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not Commission.otherwise appropriated, the same to be expended under the direction of a commission to be composed of the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Committee on the Library of the Senate, and the chairman of the Committee on the Library of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-seventh Congress.
Sec. 3. Sites.That the commissions herein created are empowered, respectively, to select sites for the statues authorized by this Act on ground *Proviso.*Restriction.belonging to the Government: *Provided*, That said statues shall not be located in the grounds of the Capitol or Library of Congress. Approved, February 27, 1903.