Volume 69
Public Law 84–214
To authorize an investigation and report on the advisability of a national monument in Brooklyn, New York.
Approved August 3, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize an investigation and report on the advisability of a national monument in Brooklyn, New York.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make an investigation and report thereon to the Congress within one year following the appropriation of funds to the Department of the Interior for the purposes of this Act, with respect to the advisability of establishing a national monument in Brooklyn, New York, in honor of two hundred and fifty-six Maryland heroes who fell in combat during the Battle of Brooklyn On the 27th day of August 1776. The report to the Congress shall include information regarding the following:
National historical importance of such a memorial;
Nature of burial site, identity of exact site of burial, size and present-day conditions of site, including improvements thereon;
Complete cost for the establishment of such memorial;
Cost of maintenance of such a memorial and amount thereof that will be paid for by the city of New York and/or the State of New York; and
Recommendations.
Approved August 3, 1955.