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Volume 29

Public Law 54–36

Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Navy to donate one condemned cannon mid four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to W. H. Wallace Poet, Numbered Sixty-six, Grand Army of the Republic, of Eldorado, Kansas, and for other purposes.

Approved February 27, 1896

Statutory text

An Act

Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Navy to donate one condemned cannon mid four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to W. H. Wallace Poet, Numbered Sixty-six, Grand Army of the Republic, of Eldorado, Kansas, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That, the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate one condemned cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to W. H. Wallace Post, Numbered Sixty-six, Grand Army of the Republic, of Eldorado, Kansas, for the soldiers’ monument to be erected in said town: Provided,

Provisos.

Condition.

That in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such articles can be spared without detriment to the public interest: And provided further,

Expenses.

That the United States shall not be subjected to any expense on account of such donation.

Approved, .

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