Chapter 147.
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CHAP. 147.— An act to regulate the mode of purchasing tobacco for the United States Navy.March 3, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Regulating mode of purchasing tobacco for United States Navy. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, directed to cause all purchases of tobacco for the use of the Navy to be made in the city of Washington, and as follows: " In the month of February or March of each year the Secretary of the Navy shall cause proposals for bids for supplying the Navy with tobacco during the next year to be advertised thirty days in one daily newspaper in each of the cities of New York, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Richmond, Raleigh, North Carolina, Saint Louis, Louisville, Nashville, Hartford, Connecticut, Detroit, Cairo, Illinois, and Chicago; said tobacco to be manufactured during the months of June, July, August, and September; the bids to be accompanied by samples of the tobacco which each bidder may propose to furnish.
The lowest bid for furnishing tobacco equal to the United States Navy standard now in use shall be accepted. " Approved, March 3, 1881.