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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 11 STAT. · Jan. 19, 1859 · Chapter X

Chapter X. to authorize the President to make Advances of Money to Hiram Powers

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Chap. X.— An Act to authorize the President to make Advances of Money to Hiram Powers.Jan. 19, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That out of the monies heretofore appropriated by law to enable the President of the United States toPartial payments in advance authorized. contract with Hiram Powers for certain statuary, the President shall be, and hereby is, authorized to make such partial payments in advance as he shall deem fit. Approved, January 19, 1859.
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