Chapter 84.
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CHAP. 84.— Joint Resolution Authorizing the erection on the public grounds in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of a memorial to Francis Asbury. February 28, 1919.[[S. J. Res. 107](/us/bill/65/sjres/107).][[Pub. Res., No. 54](/us/bill/65/pubres/54).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Chief of Engineers,District of Columbia.Memorial to Francis Asbury may be erected on public grounds, etc.
United States Army, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant permission to the Francis Asbury Memorial Association for the erection on public grounds of the United States in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, other than those of the Capitol,Exceptions. the Library of Congress, and the White House, of a memorial to Francis Asbury, a pioneer itinerant, whose continuous journeyings through our cities, towns, villages, and early settlements, from seventeen hundred and seventy-one to eighteen hundred and sixteen, greatly promoted the interests of patriotism, education, morality, and religion and were a distinct aid to the American Republic: *Provided*, That the design of the memorial shall be approved and the*Provisos*.Approval of design, etc. site shall be chosen by the Commission of Fine Arts, and that the United States shall be put to no expense in or by the erection of the said memorial: *Provided*, That the memorial herein provided forOther excepted places. shall not be erected or placed in any part of the Mall, or Potomac Park, nor on any ground within one-half mile of the Capitol.
Approved, February 28, 1919.