Volume 29
Public Law 54–64
Donating one condemned cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to Stone River Post, Numbered Seventy-four, Grand Army of the Republic, Sedan, Kansas, and for other purposes.
Approved March 20, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
Donating one condemned cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to Stone River Post, Numbered Seventy-four, Grand Army of the Republic, Sedan, 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 to Stone River Post, Numbered Seventy-four, Department of Kansas, Grand Army of the Republic, Sedan, Kansas, one condemned cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls, for the monument to be erected in the cemetery in said town. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to deliver to Charles A. Clark Post, Numbered One hundred and eighty four, Department of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic, of Ridge Farm, Illinois, four pieces of condemned light cast-iron cannon and twenty cannon balls, for use of said post for decorative purposes: Provided, That in the judgment of the Secretary of
Provisos.
Condition.
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 such donation.
Approved, .