Volume 49
Public Law 74–608
To authorize the Secretary of War to lend to the reunion committee of the United Confederate Veterans, three thousand blankets, olive drab, numbered 4, and three thousand canvas cots, to be used at their annual encampment to be held at Amarillo, Texas, in September 1935.
Approved August 22, 1935
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of War to lend to the reunion committee of the United Confederate Veterans, three thousand blankets, olive drab, numbered 4, and three thousand canvas cots, to be used at their annual encampment to be held at Amarillo, Texas, in September 1935.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
United Confederate Veterans.
Loan of Army equipment for encampment at Amarillo, Tex., authorized.
of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to lend, at his discretion, to the reunion committee of the United Confederate Veterans, for use at the United Confederate Veterans Encampment, to be held at Amarillo, Texas, September 3, 4, 5, and 6, 1935, ten 15-foot hospital ward tents, with all pegs, poles, and equipment necessary for their erection; three thousand olive-drab blankets, numbered 4; three thousand canvas cots; nine hundred mess kits, complete: Provided, That no expense
Provisos.
No Government expense.
shall be caused the United States Government by the delivery and return of said property, the same to be delivered from the nearest quartermaster depot at such time prior to the holding of said encampment as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of War and the Confederate reunion committee: Provided further, That the Secretary
Bond.
of War, before delivery of such property, shall take from said reunion committee of the United Confederate Veterans a good and sufficient bond for the safe return of said property in good order and condition, and the whole without expense to the United States.
Approved, August 22, 1935.