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IV. NATIONAL MONUMENTS

1. White Plains,

SIXTY-NINTH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 328. 1926. 562

CHAP. 328.—An Act For the erection of tablets or markers upon the May 18, 1926. Revolutionary battle field of White Plains, State of New York. [H. R. 3990.] [Public, No. 243.]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary White Plains, N.Y. of War is hereby authorized to erect and maintain at some suitable Tablet authorized point upon the battle field of White Plains, in the State of New York, on site of tablets or markers to indicate the position of the Revolutionary army Revolutionary then under the immediate command of General Washington upon battle field at. that momentous occasion, and to place thereon a suitable inscription. EC Amount authorized S . 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any for. money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, so much of the Post, p. 877. sum of $2,500 as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved, May 18, 1926.

The text of the original proclamations authorizing these national monuments, which were transferred from the War Department to the by Executive Order 6228 of July 28, 1933, can be found in the 1946 volume of Proclamations and Orders Relating to the National Park Service on the following pages:

2. Big Hole Battlefield, Beaverhead County, Montana p. 124 in 1946 volume 3. Cabrillo Monument, Ft. Rosecrans, California p. 130 in 1946 volume 4. Castle Pinckney, Charleston, South Carolina p. 145 in 1946 volume 5. Father Millet Cross, , New York p. 181 in 1946 volume 6. Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida p. 144 in 1946 volume 7. Fort Matanzas, Florida p. 186 in 1946 volume 8. Fort Pulaski, Georgia p. 188 in 1946 volume 9. Meriwether Lewis, Hardin County, Tennessee p. 232 in 1946 volume 10. Mound City Group, Chillicothe, Ohio p. 238 in 1946 volume 11. , Fort Wood, New York p. 301 in 1946 volume

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