Volume 34
Public Law 59–2928
Providing for the completion by the Secretary of War of a monument to the memory of the American soldiers who fell in the battle of New Orleans at Chalmette, Louisiana, and making the necessary appropriation therefor.
Approved March 4, 1907
Statutory text
Ac Act
Providing for the completion by the Secretary of War of a monument to the memory of the American soldiers who fell in the battle of New Orleans at Chalmette, Louisiana, and making the necessary appropriation therefor.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the sum of twenty-five
Chalmette. La.
Appropriation for monument at. to soldiers who fell at battle of New Orleans.
thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, for the completion of a monument to the memory of the soldiers who fell in the battle of New Orleans in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, said monument to be completed under the direction and approval of the Secretary of War: Provided, That the State of Louisiana shall cede and transfer
Provisos.
State to furnish site.
its jurisdiction to the property on which said monument is to be completed in accordance with the provisions of act numbered forty-one of the legislature of that State, approved July nineteenth, nineteen hundred and two: Provided further, That when said monument is completed
Maintenance, etc.
the responsibility of maintaining the same and keeping the grounds surrounding it shall remain with the United Daughters of Seventeen hundred and seventy-six and Eighteen hundred and twelve, free of any expense or responsibility on the part of the Government of the United States.
Approved, March 4, 1907, 11 a. m.