LAW AUTHORIZING THE MONUMENT LAWS 1914, CHAPTER 100 AN ACT to provide for the erection of a monument to the memory of General Philip H. Sheridan in Capitol park in the city of Albany, and making an appropriation therefor. Section 1. The trustees of public buildings, the attorneygeneral and three members, to be designated by the governor, of Philip H. Sheridan camp number two hundred, Division of New York, Sons of Veterans, United States of America, are hereby created a commission to purchase and erect a suitable monument to the memory of General Philip H. Sheridan, on a site to be selected by the commission in Capitol park in the city of Albany. The governor shall be chairman of the commission. Such commission shall cause plans and designs for such monument to be made and submitted to it, and shall select therefrom the plan and design most suitable in its opinion, for the purpose contemplated, and shall cause such monument to be erected, in accordance with such plan and design, or a modification thereof, at an expense not to exceed the aggregate of the amount appropriated by this act and contributed by private subscriptions as provided herein. § 2. The sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, but no part of such money shall be available until there shall have been raised by private subscription not less than ten thousand dollars for the purpose specified in this act, and such amount shall have been deposited in a bank in the city of Albany to the credit of the commission created by this act, nor be thereafter available, except for the preparation of plans and designs and the necessary advertising expenses, if any, until some suitable plan and design shall have been approved and accepted by the commission. The money hereby appropriated shall be paid by the state treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller, on vouchers approved by the chairman of the commission. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. LIST OF COMMITTEES NEW YORK STATE SHERIDAN MONUMENT COMMISSION The Governor, CHARLES S. WHITMAN. Speaker, THADDEUS C. SWEET. Attorney-Generai, EGBURT WOODBURY. CHARLES M. WINCHESTER. JOHN FARNSWORTH. OFFICERS OF THE JOINT CITIZENS' AND PHILIP Honorable Joseph W. Stevens, Mayor City of Albany, Chairman. PHILIP H. SHERIDAN CAMP No. 200, SONS OF VETERANS, COMMITTEE CITIZENS' COMMITTEE Mayor Joseph W. Stevens. Representative Peter G. Ten Eyck. Senator Henry M. Sage. Assemblyman John G. Malone. General John H. Patterson. Capt. William N. S. Sanders. John S. McEwan. James F. Tracey. John A. Dix. George C. Van Tuyl. Dr. Arthur W. Elting. Samuel Hessberg. E. Palmer Gavit. Major Albert E. Denison. Robert Olcott.. George H. Thacher. Patrick E. McCabe. Dr. Walton W. Battershall. Rev. Charles W. Leitzell. Lynn J. Arnold. Albert E. Hoyt. Edgar C. Leonard. Ellis J. Staley. Major Henry C. Littlefield. John T. Norton. Clifford S. Sims. Daniel J. Dugan. Benjamin W. Arnold. S. Lyman Munson. Charles M. Winchester. Francis A. Shields. William T. Mayer. Walter Launt Palmer. Major Harmon Pumpelly Read. David A. Thompson. Edward Corning. Edward B. Cantine. 122 |