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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 20 STAT. · Feb. 25, 1878 · Chapter 17

Chapter 17.

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CHAP. 17.— AN ACT to appropriate money for the purchase of a law library for the Territory of Dakota.Feb. 25, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations.Law library for Dakota. That the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by and under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States in the purchase of a law’ library for said Territory, to be kept at the seat of the government thereof, for the use of the governor, supreme and district courts, members of the legislature, and such other persons as shall be provided by law, and the sum of two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of paying the freight thereon.
Approved, February 25, 1878.
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