Chapter 116. Creating a Commission for the maintenance, control, care, and so forth, of the Perry’s victory memorial on Put in Bay Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 116.— An Act Creating a Commission for the maintenance, control, care, and so forth, of the Perry’s victory memorial on Put in Bay Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, and for other purposes. March 3, 1919.[[H. R. 13482](/us/bill/65/hr/13482).][[Public, No. 344](/us/65/pl/344).] Perry’s Victory Memorial, Ohio.Preamble.Whereas there has been erected by the Perry’s Victory Centennial Commission, composed of members appointed pursuant to law, a great memorial monument on Put m Bay Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, at a cost of approximately $1,000,000, perpetually memorializing the victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie, and General William Henry Harrison’s northwestern campaign in the War of Eighteen hundred and twelve, and commemorating the century of peace which has ensued between Great Britain and the United States since the termination of that conflict by the signing of the treaty of Ghent; and 1323 Whereas the Federal Government and the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, Rhode Island, Kentucky, and Massachusetts have severally contributed to the payment of such cost; and Whereas the legal title to the land constituting the site whereon said memorial has been erected is vested in the United States solely, in perpetual trust, for the use, occupancy, and enjoyment of said memorial and other memorial public uses and purposes not inconsistent with said memorial; and Whereas said memorial is now self-sustaining and will so continue as to the maintenance thereof, if due provision is made for its care and protection:
Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That a Perry’s VictoryCommission created.Composition. Memorial Commission is hereby created, consisting of Nelson A. Miles, Charles H. Davis, and J. Warren Keifer, commissioners of the United States; George H. Worthington, Webster P, Huntington, S. M. Johannsen, Eli Winkler, and Horace Holbrook, commissioners from the State of Ohio; A. E. Sisson, Milton W.
Shreve, Edwin H. Vare, T. C. Jones, and George W. Neff, commissioners from the State of Pennsylvania; Arthur P. Loomis, John C. Lodge, Roy S. Barnhart, and E. K. Warren, commissioners from the State of Michigan; William H. Thompson, Chesley R. Perry, James Pugh, Richard S. Folsom, Nelson W. Lampert, Adam Weckler, William Porter Adams, Willis J. Wells, W. H. McIntosh, and H. S. Beckemeyer, commissioners from the State of Illinois; Frederick M. Symonds, John M. Whitehead, A. W.
Sanborn, C. B. Perry, S. W. Randolph, Louis Bohmrich, and Sol P. Huntington, commissioners from the State of Wisconsin; William J. Conners, George D. Emerson, John F. Malone, Edward D. Jackson, Simon L. Adler, Martin H. Glynn, William F. Rafferty, William L. Ormrod, Charles H. Wiltsie, and Jacob Shifferdecker, commissioners from the State of New York; John P. Sanborn, Louis N. Arnold, Sumner Mowry, Henry Davis, and Harry Cutler, commissioners from the State of Rhode Island; and Henry Watterson, Andrew Cowan, Samuel M.
Wilson, R. W. Nelson, and Mackenzie R. Todd, commissioners from the State of Kentucky, who shall serve without compensation save necessary expenses. As vacancies occur in the commission on the part of the severalCommissioners to consist of three from each contributing State. States, they shall remain unfilled until only three commissioners from each State remain; thereafter the commissioners from each State shall be three. When a vacancy shall occur in the commission on the part of theFilling vacancies.
United States it shall be filled by the President of the United States, and when such vacancy shall occur on the part of any State, the same shall be filled by the President of the United States on the recommendation of the governor of such State. Sec. 2. That said commission, upon the said memorial and theControl and custody of Memorial, etc. site thereof being turned over to it, shall forthwith have full possession and control thereof with power to maintain, improve, protect, and preserve the same from injury thereto so far as its revenues will permit, and with power to appoint all necessary officers, agents, and employees, and to fix their compensation; also to have such other powers as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes and objects and to fulfill the duties of the commission.
It shall notRestrictions. contract any debt or obligation payable otherwise than from the net revenues derived from its operation and management of said site and memorial, or that may be derived by it from other sources. Sec. 3. That the title to said memorial and site hitherto conveyedAcceptance of title. to the United States by the State of Ohio is hereby accepted by the1324United States for the uses, purposes, and trusts therein and by this Act provided. Sec. 4. Acceptance of donations, improvements, etc.
That the said commission is authorized and empowered to receive donations and bequests, to improve said site, and to erect thereon, when sufficient funds are available for such purposes, other structures of a general public character, but the same shall harmonize with the memorial, and such structures when erected shall become subject wholly to said commission, and the title to the same shall vest as does the title to said site and memorial and be subject to the same uses, possession, trust, control, and management.
Sec. 5. Annual report. That said commission, through its president and treasurer, shall make, in writing, a report to the Secretary of the Interior of the United States on the first Monday in December of each year, in which shall be stated the condition of the said site and memorial as to preservation, and all receipts and disbursements of money pertaining thereto. Sec. 6. Officers, etc. That the officers of the commission shall be a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, and such other officers, agents, and employees as it may deem necessary.
By-laws, etc.The commission shall have, power to adopt rules and by-laws for its government and to provide the methods of voting and the number of votes each State having more than three commissioners shall cast at its meeting. Sec. 7. Amendment. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 3, 1919.