The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary for the purpose of caring for and maintaining the monument erected to the memory of Commodore Oliver H. Perry by this state, situated in the Island cemetery, Newport, and that sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended under the direction of the director of environmental management.
History of Section.
Res. 32, 1898; G.L. 1923, ch. 416, § 37; P.L. 1935, ch. 2250, § 149; G.L. 1938, ch. 632, § 7; impl. am. P.L. 1952, ch. 2973, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 30-28-5.