Chapter 251. Providing for the erection of a monument on Kill Devil Hill, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, commemorative of the first successful human attempt in history at power-driven airplane flight
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CHAP. 251.— An Act Providing for the erection of a monument on Kill Devil Hill, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, commemorative of the first successful human attempt in history at power-driven airplane flight. March 2, 1927. [[S. 4876](/us/bill/69/s/4876).] [[Public, No. 668](/us/pl/69/668).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Kitty Hawk, N. C. That there shall 1265be erected on Kill Devil Hill, at Kitty Hawk, in the State of NorthMonument to commemorate first successful airplane flight to be erected on Kill Devil Hill at.
Carolina, a monument in commemoration of the first successful human attempt in all history at power-driven airplane flight, achieved by Orville Wright on December 17, 1903; and a commission to be composed of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of Commerce is hereby created to carry out the purposes of this Act. Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the said commission to selectCommission created.Duties of commission. a suitable location for said monument, which shall be as near as possible to the actual site of said flight; to acquire the necessary land therefor; to superintend the erection of the said monument; and to make all necessary and appropriate arrangements for the unveiling and dedication of the same when it shall have been completed.
Sec. 3. That such sum or sums as Congress may hereafter appropriateSums authorized to be appropriated. for the purposes of this Act are hereby authorized to be appropriated. Sec. 4. The design and plans for the monument shall be subjectApproval of designs, etc. to the approval of the Commission of Fine Arts and the Joint Committee on the Library. Approved, March 2, 1927.