Chapter 443. To authorize the Secretary of War to donate certain bronze cannon to the Maryland Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, for use at Fort Frederick, Maryland
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CHAP. 443.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of War to donate certain bronze cannon to the Maryland Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, for use at Fort Frederick, Maryland. March 3, 1931.[[H. R. 12781](/us/bill/71/hr/12781).][[Public, No. 830](/us/pl/71/830).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Obsolete ordnance.Donated to Maryland Society, D. A. R., for use at Fort Frederick. That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to donate, without expense to the United States, to the Maryland Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, for use at Fort Frederick, Maryland, four bronze cannon of Civil War type on hand at the Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York, and described as follows:
Bronze cannon, twelvepounder, muzzle loading, smooth bore, length seventy-two inches, estimated weight twelve hundred pounds, diameter of bore four and five-eighths inches, gun number 108; bronze cannon, twelvepounder, muzzle loading, smooth bore, length seventy-two inches, estimated weight twelve hundred pounds, diameter of bore four and five-eighths inches, gun number 109; bronze cannon, twelvepounder, muzzle loading, smooth bore, length seventy-two inches, estimated weight twelve hundred pounds, diameter of bore four and five-eighths inches, gun number 110; bronze cannon, twelvepounder, muzzle loading, smooth bore, length seventy-two inches, estimated weight twelve hundred pounds, diameter of bore four and five-eighths inches, gun number 111.
Approved, March 3, 1931.