Volume 21
Public Law 46–128
to authorize the Secretary of War to transfer to the Fairmount Park Art Association thirty condemned bronze cannon, to be used in the erection of an equestrian statue to the late Major-General George Gordon Meade.
Approved June 8, 1880
Statutory text
An act
to authorize the Secretary of War to transfer to the Fairmount Park Art Association thirty condemned bronze cannon, to be used in the erection of an equestrian statue to the late Major-General George Gordon Meade.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer to the Fairmount Park Art Association (a corporation created by the laws of Pennsylvania) thirty condemned bronze cannon, to be used by the said association for the erection of a bronze equestrian statue of the late Major-General George Gordon Meade within the limits of the city of Philadelphia.
Approved, June 8, 1880.