Public Law 46–36

That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and is hereby directed to pay to the governor of the State of Vermont the sum of forty thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be by him transferred to the Bennington Battle Monument Association, which has raised an equal amount for the erection of a proposed monument to commemorate

Monument.

the Revolutionary battle of Bennington.

Sec. 2.

That no moneys shall be paid out of the Treasury for the benefit

Appropriation.

of such association until the design for its monument shall have been approved by the President of the United States, or by a Commission appointed by him for the purpose, and a board of three Army officers appointed by him shall have reported to him that the moneys already raised, together with the sum hereby appropriated from the Treasury of the United States, shall be sufficient to complete the monument in accordance with the design approved by him, or by the commission appointed by him.