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Private Law 46–27
making appropriation for the removal of the remains of the late Major General George Sykes, United States Army, from Fort Brown, Texas, to West Point, New York.
Approved February 17, 1880
Statutory text
An Act
making appropriation for the removal of the remains of the late Major General George Sykes, United States Army, from Fort Brown, Texas, to West Point, New York.
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 have the remains of the late Major General George Sykes, United States Army, transported from Fort Brown, Texas, to West Point, New York, and the sum of one FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. On. 27,28,29, 31,32. 1880. thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, from any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry this act into effect.
Approved, February 17, 1880.