652 `FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 80. 1895. proceedings, to be taken by the Attorney-General in behalf of the United States, in any case in which it shall be ascertained that the same can not be purchased at prices deemed reasonable and just by the said commissioners and approved by the Secretary of War. And such “fj*;;g**¤¤*i°¤ Pm condemnation proceedings may be taken pursuant to the Act ot Convti. pam. gress approved August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, regulating the condemnation of land for public uses, or the Joint Resolution authorizing the purchase or condemnation of land in the vicinity AH m of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, approved June nfth, eighteen hundred ° °’ p' ‘ and ninetyfour. R<=z¤l¤¢i¤¤¤· we Sec. 6. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to establish and enforce proper regulations for the custody, preservation, and care of the monuments now erected or which may be hereafter erected within the limits of the said national military park; and such rules shall provide for convenient access by visitors to all such monuments within the park, and the ground included -therein, on such days and within such hours as may be designated and authorized by the Secretary of War. Penalty m timmy- Sec. 7. That if any person shall destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or bg °°‘“““‘°·°°°‘ remove, except by permission of the Secretary of War, any column, statue, memorial structure, or work of art that shall be erected or placed upon the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall destroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other work for the · protection or ornament of said park or any portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber,_battle relic, tree or trees, growing or being upon said park, or hunt within the limits of the park, or shall remove or destroy any breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelter or any part thereof constructed by the armies formerly engaged in the battles on the land or approaches to the park, or shall violate any regulation made and published by the Secretary of War for the government of visitors within the limits of said park, any person so offending and found guilty thereoi§ before any justice of the peace of the county in which the ofiense may be committed, shall, for each and every such odense, torfeit and pay a fine, in the discretion of the justice, according to the aggravation of the offense, of not less than five nor more than five hundred dollars, one-half for the use of the park and the other half to the informe1·, to be enforced and recovered before such justice in like manner as debts of like nature are now bylaw recoverable in the county where the oflense may be committed. ,a}f,'f;.':,'}_,§,‘;‘_§‘Q,?_°§Qj Sec. 8. That the Secretary of W'ar is hereby authorized and directed amssszu. to cause to be made a suitable bronze tablet, containing on it the address delivered by Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, at Gettysburg on the nineteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, on the occasion of the dedication of the national ceme- - tery at that place, and such tablet, having on it besides the address a Medallion. medallion likeness of President Lincoln, shall be erected on the most suitable site within the limits of said park, which said address was in _ the following words, to wit: I““°"*'“°"‘ “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
- ‘ Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. VVe are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that iield as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether litting and proper that we should do this. =* But, in alarger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men. living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it tar above our poor power to add or
