Chapter LXXII. *making an Appropriation for the Erection of a marine Hospital at San Francisco*
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CHAP. LXXII.— An Act *making an Appropriation for the Erection of a marine Hospital at San Francisco*. Jan. 28, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, A pavilion hospital to be erected That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized to erect on one of the governmentFORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 82, 83. 1873.421 reservations near the city of San Francisco, California, a pavilion hospital,on a government reservation near San Francisco.Cost not to exceed, &c. in accordance with the designs and estimates prepared by the supervising architect, the cost of said hospital not to exceed the amount of the estimates, viz:
Fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty-six cents, which amount is hereby appropriated for thatAppropriation. purpose out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, in his discretionMarine hospital may be sold.No reservation to be used, if, &c. to sell the marine hospital and grounds now owned by the government in that city: *And provided further*, That no reservation shall be used or occupied for the purpose herein indicated if the same is wanted or likely to be wanted by the military department, nor without its formal consent first obtained.
Approved, January 28, 1873.