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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 12 STAT. · July 27, 1861 · Chapter XXIII

Chapter XXIII. *to provide for the Payment of the Police organized by the United States for the City of Baltimore, and to enable the Mint to furnish small Gold Coins, and to provide for the Manufacture or Purchase of Field Signals.* July 27, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Un

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Chap. XXIII.— An Act *to provide for the Payment of the Police organized by the United States for the City of Baltimore, and to enable the Mint to furnish small Gold Coins, and to provide for the Manufacture or Purchase of Field Signals.* July 27, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That for the maintenance of saidPayment of United States police in Baltimore. police there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That of said sum not more thanHow money to be expended. twenty thousand dollars shall be expended in anyone month for said purpose, and that the same shall cease when the said police are dismissed from service by the United States: *And provided,* That the disbursementsDisbursements, how sanctioned. of the amount hereby allowed shall be made only with the sanction and by the authority of the Commanding General of that Military Department. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That there be and hereby is appropriated,Appropriations. out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, viz:
To enable the mint to furnish such small gold coins as may be requiredMint. for the public service, forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the manufacture or purchase of apparatus and equipments for fieldField signals. signals, five thousand dollars. Approved, July 27, 1861. Chapter XXIV: to increase the present Military Establishment of the United States. 11 Stat. XXIV 1861-07-29 Chapter XXIV Little, Brown and Company text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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