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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · April 10, 1869 · Chapter XIX

Chapter XIX. *making an Appropriation for the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy*

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CHAP. XIX.— An Act *making an Appropriation for the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy*. April 10, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriation for the repair, preservation, &c. of works for rivers and harbors; That the sum of two million dollars is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, to be expended for the repair, extension, preservation, and completion of works for the improvement of rivers and harbors under the direction of the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That the Secretary how to be expended.Report to Congress at December session.of War is hereby authorized to cause such expenditures to be made so as best to subserve the interests of commerce; and he is required to report to Congress, at the opening of its December session, all expenditures made under the provisions of this act up to that time in detail.
Approved, April 10, 1869.
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