Chapter 987. To donate to the State of Alabama the spars of the captured battle ships Don Juan d'Austria and Almirante Oquendo
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CHAP. 987.— An Act To donate to the State of Alabama the spars of the captured battle ships Don Juan d'Austria and Almirante Oquendo. June 3, 1902.[[Public, No. 141](/us/pl/32/141).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Alabama.Spars of captured Spanish battle ships donated to. That the lower mast taken from the captured Spanish battle ship Don Juan d’Austria, at Manila, and the topmast from the Almirante Oquendo, at Santiago de Cuba, be, and the same are hereby, donated by the United States to the State of Alabama, to be used in the erection of a flagstaff on the capitol grounds of said State as a perpetual memorial to the valor of the American Navy.
Approved, June 3, 1902.