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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 21 STAT. · Jan. 14, 1880 · Chapter 5

Chapter 5. to authorize the laying of a telegraphic cable from the main land in Rhode Island to Block Island

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CHAP. 5.— An Act to authorize the laying of a telegraphic cable from the main land in Rhode Island to Block Island.Jan. 14, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriation.Telegraphic cable to Block Island, R. I. That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and is hereby appropriated for the purpose of laying a telegraphic cable, under the direction of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, from the main land of Rhode Island to Block Island, Rhode Island. Approved, January 14, 1880.
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