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Public Law 46–127
to consummate the resolution of the Continental Congress, of October fourth, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, and erect a monument to the memory of Brigadier General Herkimer, as therein directed.
Approved June 8, 1880
Statutory text
An act
to consummate the resolution of the Continental Congress, of October fourth, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, and erect a monument to the memory of Brigadier General Herkimer, as therein directed.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized, and he is hereby directed, to pay to the Oneida Historical Society, of Utica, New York, out of the Treasury, from any moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand one hundred FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 127, 128, 129, 130, 131. 1880. dollars, for the purpose, and to be used by said society in carrying out
Continental Congress, 1777, res.
and consummating the resolution of the Continental Congress of the United States of America, passed October fourth, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, providing for the erection of a monument to the memory of Brigadier-General Herkimer, who commanded at the battle of Oriskany, and was there “ killed fighting gallantly in defence of the liberties of these States”.
Approved, June 8, 1880.