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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · February 20, 1885 · Chapter 138

Chapter 138.

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CHAP. 138.— AN ACT to provide for the purchase of additional land for the uses of the public building in the city of New Bedford, State of Massachusetts.February 20, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,New Bedford, Mass.Purchase of additional land for uses of public building.Appropriation. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purchase of land adjoining the lot now occupied by the public building in the city of New Bedford, State of Massachusetts, and used as a customhouse and post-office. Approved, February 20, 1885.
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