Volume 22
Public Law 47–17
making an appropriation for the base and pedestal of a monument to the late Rear-Admiral Samuel Francia Du Pont, United States Navy.
Approved February 25, 1882
Statutory text
An Act
making an appropriation for the base and pedestal of a monument to the late Rear-Admiral Samuel Francia Du Pont, United States Navy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the circle at the intersection of Massachusetts and Connecticut avenues in Washington City shall hereafter be called the “Du Pont Circle”; and the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the preparation of the circle and of the base for a proposed statue of the late Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, United States Navy, to be erected thereon.
Approved, February 25, 1882.