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Volume 49 · 1371

Public Law 74–448

Authorizing the erection of a memorial to those who met their death in the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah.

Approved May 22, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

Authorizing the erection of a memorial to those who met their death in the wreck of the dirigible Shenandoah.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary

Dirigible “Shenandoah.”

of the Treasury be, and lie is hereby, authorized and directed to

Erection of memorial to dead in wreck of, authorized.

Location.

erect near Ava, Ohio, on the spot where the Shenandoah fell, a suitable tablet or marker to commemorate the heroic services rendered by Commander Landsdowne and other members of the crew who died when the Navy dirigible Shenandoah was destroyed.

Sec. 2.

There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any

Appropriation authorized.

money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $2,500 to carry out the provisions of this Act.

Approved, May 22, 1936.

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