Chapter CIV. *making Provision for raising Property of the United States sunk in the Waters thereof.* June 17, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Secretary of Navy may contract for raising certain sunken vessels, &c
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Chap. CIV.— An Act *making Provision for raising Property of the United States sunk in the Waters thereof.* June 17, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Secretary of Navy may contract for raising certain sunken vessels, &c. That the Secretary of the Navy be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to contract with such person or persons as he shall deem most for the public service for raising such vessels, their armaments, stores, or equipments, belonging to the United States, and sunk in the waters thereof; and that the sum of oneAppropriation. hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated to carry the provisions of this act into effect.
Approved, June 17, 1862.