Chapter CLXVII. *to provide for the Improvement of the Grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane by an Exchange of Land.* June 28, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Exchange of land for government hospital for the insane
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Chap. CLXVII.— An Act *to provide for the Improvement of the Grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane by an Exchange of Land.* June 28, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Exchange of land for government hospital for the insane. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to deed to John Perkins a portion of the extreme south point or angle of the farm of the Government Hospital for the Insane, in exchange for two acres of land, more or less, now owned and occupied by the said Perkins, and situated near the middle of that side of the hospital farm which fronts upon the public roads: *Provided*, That not more than three acres are given for one contained in the last described piece of land belonging to the said Perkins: *And provided, further*, That the said Perkins is able to give, and does give, to the United States a good and sufficient title to the piece of land now owned and occupied by him.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of the Interior Expenses of moving dwellinghouse, &c.is further authorized to defray the expenses of moving the dwelling-house on the present Perkins tract to the tract exchanged for it, and of digging and walling a well, out of any appropriation already made, or that may be made, for enclosing the grounds of the hospital. Approved, June 28, 1864.