Volume 52
Public Law 75–357
To aid in providing a permanent mooring for the battleship Oregon.
Approved June 14, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To aid in providing a permanent mooring for the battleship Oregon.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $25,000, to be expended by the Secretary of War, or, in his discretion, by the State of Oregon under his supervision, for the purposes of (1) preparing and constructing a suitable and permanent mooring for the battleship Oregon at a site which has been dedicated for such purpose by the city of
Removal from present berth.
Portland, Oregon, to such mooring:
Proviso.
Local cooperation.
Portland, Oregon, and (2) removing such battleship from her present berth in the Willamette River at Provided, That no money appropriated under authority of this Act shall be expended until local interests have provided such additional funds as in the opinion of the Secretary of War are necessary to insure completion of the work.
Approved, June 14, 1938.