Volume 29
Public Law 54–407
Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Navy to donate condemned cannon and condemned cannon balls to certain posts of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Approved June 10, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Navy to donate condemned cannon and condemned cannon balls to certain posts of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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
Condemned cannon.
Donated Grand Army posts, Leavenworth and McLouth, Kans.
be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate one condemned cannon and condemned cannon balls for four pyramids to Shaw Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Leavenworth, Kansas, and also one condemned cannon and condemned cannon balls for four pyramids to McLouth Post, Numbered Two hundred and seventy-nine, Grand Army of the Republic, at McLouth, Kansas, for soldiers’ monuments to be erected at said cities: Provided, That, in the judgment of the Secretary
Provisos.
Condition.
of the Navy, such articles can be spared without detriment to the public interest: And provided further, That the United States shall not be
Expense.
subjected to any expense on account of suck donation.
Received by the President, May 29, 1896.
[Note by the Department of State.— The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]