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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · Jan. 8, 1873 · Chapter XIX

Chapter XIX. *to provide for the Removal of the sunken Wreck which now obstructs the Channel-way off Sandy Hook*

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CHAP. XIX.— An Act *to provide for the Removal of the sunken Wreck which now obstructs the Channel-way off Sandy Hook*. Jan. 8, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriation for removal of the sunken wreck from the channel-way off Sandy Huck. That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of removing the sunken wreck which now obstructs the channel-way Proviso.off Sandy Hook, New York: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained or any action to be had hereunder shall relieve from liability to repay such expenditure any one responsible for said obstruction.
Approved, January 8, 1873.
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