Volume 45
Public Law 70–712
To erect a tablet or marker to mark the site of the Battle of Kettle Creek, in Wilkes County, Georgia, where, on February 14, 1779, Elijah Clarke, of Georgia, and Colonel Pickens, of South Carolina, overtook the Tories under Colonel Boyd, killing him and many of his followers, thus ending British dominion in Georgia.
Approved May 23, 1928
Statutory text
An Act
To erect a tablet or marker to mark the site of the Battle of Kettle Creek, in Wilkes County, Georgia, where, on February 14, 1779, Elijah Clarke, of Georgia, and Colonel Pickens, of South Carolina, overtook the Tories under Colonel Boyd, killing him and many of his followers, thus ending British dominion in Georgia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the sum of
Battle of Kettle Creek, Ga.
Sum authorized for tablet on site of, in Revolutionary War.
Post, p. 1378.
$2,500 be, and is hereby, authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of erecting a tablet or marker on the grounds of the Battle of Kettle Creek, in Wilkes County, Georgia, where, on February 14, 1779, Elijah Clarke, of Georgia, and Colonel Pickens, of South Carolina, overtook the Tories under Colonel Boyd, killing him and many of his followers, thus ending British dominion in Georgia, said tablet or marker to be placed on the portion of this battle ground now owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution, said sum to be dispensed by the Secretary of War after he shall have approved the plans of said tablet or marker.
Approved, May 23, 1928.