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 FIFTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Cris. 1309,1310. 1902. 491 To R. W. and J. F. Trammell, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. To Mrs. Emma F. Campbell, two thousand one hundred and ninety- two dollars and sixty-two cents. To W. W. Biggs, ninety-five dollars. To Richard Km, two hundred and twenty dollars. To William H. Wrenn, one hundred and fifteen dollars. To F. L. Brenizer, three hundred dollars. To T. T. Taylor, one hundred and thirty-two dollars. To E. D. Cornell, one hundred dollars. To W. P. Poole, sixty-five dollars. To Belle V. Brant, six dollars and fifty cents. To Charles Taylor, two hundred and eight dollars. To F. L. Birch, two hundred and sixteen dollars. To George S. Van de Mark, one hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-six cents. To A. J. Wedderburn, one hundred and seventy-three dollars. Approved, June 28, 1902. CHAP. 1310.-An Act To provide for the erection, at Fredericksburg, Viia, of June 28, 1902. · the monument to the memory of General Hugh Mercer, which was ordered1H; Con- gressteoln the eighth day of April, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, should be erec. Whereas the Congress of the United States, on the eighth day of Pr¤¤¤1>1<·>· April, seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, agreed to the erection of a monument to the memory of General Hugh Merce1·, at Fredericksburg, in the State of Virginia, and prescribed an inscription to be placed thereon; and lVhereas up to this time nothing has been done toward carrying into effect the action then taken: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Semte and Home ;>ZfRq>re.sentattves of the United States of America in Ormgress assemble, That the sum of twenty-five c£¤¤¤r¤1 Hugh Merthousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any Agympnatiou for money in the Treasury not otherwise appr0pr1ate, for the erection, §j§f,,°,§‘,°{,.,g‘d;‘j,{’c‘}Ll; at Fredericksburg, in the State of Virginia of a monument to the burg. V¤·. ¤>· meuéory of General Hugh Mercer. unon which shall be inscribed these wor s: Sacred to the memory of rnmxpuon. HUGH MERCER, · Brigadiengeneral in the army of The United States; He died on the 12th of January, 177 7, of the Wounds he received on the 3d of the same month, Near Princetown, in New-Jersey, Bravely defending the Liberties of America. The Con ess of the United States, In testimony ogxhis virtues, and their gratitude, Have caused this monument to be erected. which said sum shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary E¤v¢¤di¤1~S- of War, or such officer as he may designate, and in such sums as the work may require from time to time: orvtded, That the city of Fred- §',gf‘**°· ericksbur, or the citizens thereof, shall cede and convey to the United States sudli suitable site as may, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, be required for said monument. Approved, June 28, 1902.