Chapter 94. To authorize the collection of the military and naval records of the Revolutionary War with a view to their publication
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CHAP. 94.— An Act To authorize the collection of the military and naval records of the Revolutionary War with a view to their publication.March 2, 1913.[[S. 271](/us/bill/62/s/271).][[Public, No. 402](/us/pl/62/402).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Revolutionary War.Military and naval records to be collected, etc. That, within the limits of the appropriation heroin made, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to collect or copy and classify, with a view to publication, the scattered military records of the Revolutionary War, including all troops acting under State authority, and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to collect or copy and classify, with a view to publication, the scattered naval records of the Revolutionary War.
Sec. 2. That all such records in the possession or custody of anyTransferred to War and Navy Departments. official of the United States shall be transferred, the military records to the War Department and the naval records to the Navy Department. Sec. 3. That there is hereby appropriated for the purposes of thisAppropriation. Act, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, twenty-five thousand dollars for the War Department and seven thousand dollars for the Navy Department: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*.Expenditures, etc. aforesaid sums of money shall be expended, respectively, under the direction of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, and that they shall make to Congress each year detailed statements showing how the money herein appropriated has been expended and to whom: *Provided further*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriatedPurchases forbidden. shall be used in the purchase of any such records that maybe discovered either in the hands of private owners or in public depositories.
Approved, March 2, 1913.