Volume 21
Public Law 46–157
to provide for the erection of a monument at Schuylerville, New York, commemorative of the battle of Saratoga, and for other purposes
Approved March 3, 1881
Statutory text
An act
to provide for the erection of a monument at Schuylerville, New York, commemorative of the battle of Saratoga, and for other purposes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Whereas Horatio Seymour and other patriotic gentlemen of the State of New York did, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty nine, organize the “Saratoga Monument Association” under a perpetual charter from the legislature of said State, whose object was the erection of a fitting memorial on the site of Burgoyne’s surrender ; and
Whereas the sum of ten thousand dollars has already been donated by the citizens of said State, with which sum said association has been enabled to purchase two acres of land near the mouth of Fish Creek, on the high ground overlooking the meadow where the British laid down their arms at the battle of Saratoga ; and
Whereas said association has recently built upon said lot the foundation of the monument, of concrete, forty feet square and eight feet deep, as well as a quarter of the granite plinth or base (covering the entire foundation), four and one-half feet high; and the corner stone, ten feet square and two feet high : Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to be expended by said association, under the direction of its building committee, in erecting at Schuylerville, State of New York, upon said foundation, the monument hereinbefore referred to; the same to be of granite and of the obelisk form ; the main shaft to be twenty feet square, and the height one hundred and fifty feet, as designed by J. C. Markham, of New York City, and adopted by said association: Provided, That before transferring said money, or any part thereof, to the Saratoga
Proviso.
Monument Association, it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall so certify, that a sum of money has been raised by said association which, together with the sum hereby appropriated, shall be sufficient to complete the monument in accordance with the design specified in this act.
Approved, March 3, 1881.