Chapter XVIII. to provide for the Lighting with Gas certain Streets across the Mall
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Chap. XVIII.— An Act to provide for the Lighting with Gas certain Streets across the Mall.Feb. 2, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the sum of six thousand four hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of anyAppropriation. money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for laying down gas pipes and erecting gas lamps on Four-and-a-half street, Seventh street, and Twelfth street, across the plat of earth described in the plan of the city as reservation numbers two and three, commonly known as the Mall, the same to be expended under the direction of the CommissionerThis act to take effect from its passage. of Public Buildings.
This act shall be in force from its passage. Approved, February 2, 1859.