Chapter 3061. To appropriate the sum of forty thousand dollars as a part contribution toward the erection of a monument at Provincetown, Massachusetts, in commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims and the signing of the Mayflower compact
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CHAP. 3061.— An Act To appropriate the sum of forty thousand dollars as a part contribution toward the erection of a monument at Provincetown, Massachusetts, in commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims and the signing of the Mayflower compact. June 8, 1906. [[S. 4370](/us/bill/34/s/4370).] [[Public, No. 210](/us/pl/34/210).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there is hereby appropriated,Provincetown, Mass.Appropriation to aid in erecting monument of landing of Pilgrims. out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of forty thousand dollars, to aid in erecting a monument at Provincetown, Massachusetts, in commemoration of the first landing of the Pilgrims on Cape Cod and the signing of the compact in the cabin of the Mayflower in the harbor of said Provincetown: *Provided, **Provisos.*Condition.That the said sum of forty thousand dollars shall not be payable until there shall have been raised and made available for the erection of said monument an additional sum of at least forty thousand dollars: *Provided further.* That the design of said monument shall be approvedApproval of design etc. by the Secretary of War, the governor of the Commonwealth of Mas-226sachusetts, and the president of the Cape Cod Pilgrims’ Memorial Association; and the money for the erection of said monument shall be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of War, the governor of Massachusetts, and the president of the Cape Cod Care of grounds, etc.Pilgrims’ Memorial Association: *And provided further,* That the responsibility for the care and keeping of said monument shall be and remain with the Cape Cod Pilgrims’ Memorial Association, it being expressly understood that the United States shall have no responsibility therefor.
Approved, June 8, 1906.