Chapter 77. appropriating twenty thousand dollars for the purchase and distribution of seeds
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CHAP. 77.— An Act appropriating twenty thousand dollars for the purchase and distribution of seeds.Apr. 11, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Purchase and distribution of seeds to people in localities overflowed by overflow of Mississippi River. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purchase and distribution of seeds, under the direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture, to the people in localities overflowed, who are made destitute by the present overflow of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Approved, April 11, 1882.