Volume 61
Public Law 80–421
To provide for the loan or gift of obsolete ordnance to State homes for former members of the armed forces.
Approved July 31, 1947
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the loan or gift of obsolete ordnance to State homes for former members of the armed forces.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act entitled
Loan or gift of condemned or obsolete ordnance.
“An Act to authorize the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to make certain disposition of condemned ordnance, guns, and cannon balls in their respective Departments”, approved May 22, 1896, as amended (U. S. C., 1940 edition, title 50, sec. 67), is amended
by striking out “State museums, and incorporated museums operated and maintained for educational purposes only, whose charter denies them the right to operate for profit, municipal corporations” and inserting in lieu thereof “State museums, and incorporated museums, operated and maintained for educational purposes only, whose charter denies them the right to operate for profit, State homes for former members of the armed forces, municipal corporations”.
Approved July 31, 1947.