Chapter 110. To protect the monuments already erected on the battle fields of Bull Run, Virginia, and other monuments that may be there erected
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CHAP. 110.— An Act To protect the monuments already erected on the battle fields of Bull Run, Virginia, and other monuments that may be there erected.March 3, 1913.[[S. 1142](/us/bill/62/s/1142).][[Public, No. 412](/us/pl/62/412).] Whereas United States troops belonging to the Department of Washington,Preamble. in the month of Juno, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, took possession of certain lands on the battle fields of Bull Run and erected thereon two monuments, about one mile apart, and dedicated the same in memory of the patriots who fell July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and August twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, and thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, in the battles known as the first and second Bull Run; and Whereas the said monuments still stand on private property, the title to which has never been acquired by the United States; and Whereas many military organizations which took part in said battles desire to suitably commemorate the same; and Whereas the State of Virginia has ceded to the United States their jurisdiction over land that may be acquired for the purposes herein named, not to exceed two hundred acres:
Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of WarBull Run, Va.Inquiry into purchase of monument sites, etc., on battlefields. is hereby directed to inquire into the practicability of purchasing the land upon which the aforesaid monuments stand, the advisability of making the purchase thereof, and the price which will have to be paid therefor. Approved, March 3, 1913.