Chapter CCXLIV. to provide for the Supervision, Repairs, Liabilities, and Completion of the Washington Aqueduct
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Chap. CCXLIV.— An Act to provide for the Supervision, Repairs, Liabilities, and Completion of the Washington Aqueduct.July 4, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatAppropriation for dam, &c., for Washington aqueduct. the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is, hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of constructing the dam of solid masonry across the Maryland branch of the Potomac River, near the Great Falls, and for constructing the conduit around the Receiving *Reservoir* [Reservoir], and for paying existing liabilities and expenses, engineering, superintendence, and repairs of said aqueduct.
Approved, July 4, 1864.