Volume 49
Public Law 74–479
Authorizing the presentation of silver medals to the personnel of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
Approved June 2, 1936
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Authorizing the presentation of silver medals to the personnel of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary
Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
Medals to be presented to personnel of.
Ante, p. 176.
of the Navy be, and hereby is, directed to cause to be made at the United States Mint such number of silver medals as he may deem appropriate and necessary, respectively, to be presented to the deserving personnel of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition that spent the winter night at Little America or who commanded either one of the expedition ships throughout the expedition, to express the high admiration in which the Congress and the American people hold their heroic and undaunted accomplishments for science, unequaled in the history of polar exploration.
Approved, June 2, 1936.