Chapter 28. to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the construction of a marine hospital in the city of Memphis, Tennessee”
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CHAP. 28.— An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the construction of a marine hospital in the city of Memphis, Tennessee”.Mar. 9, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Marine Hospital, Momph is, Tenn.[21 Stat., 109](/us/stat/21/109). That the act entitled “An act to provide for the construction of a marine hospital in the city of Memphis, Tennessee”, approved May third, eighteen hundred and eighty, be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the word “purchase”, in the second section of said act, the words “at voluntary sale or by condemnation”, so that said act will read:
" “That the Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to procure a proper site in or near the city of Memphis, Tennessee, and cause to be erected thereon a building suitable for a marine hospital, after plans and specifications which shall be furnished under his direction by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department. “Sec. 2. Appropriation. That the stun of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money now in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury in the purchase, at voluntary sale or by condemnation, of said site, and the erection of the aforesaid building thereon; and the cost of the site and the erection of the building shall in no event exceed the sum hereby appropriated”.
" Approved, March 9, 1882.