Chapter 178. to amend an act approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An act to increase the water supply of the city of Washington and for other purposes."July 4, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*,Ac
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CHAP. 178.— An Act to amend an act approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An act to increase the water supply of the city of Washington and for other purposes."July 4, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*,Act to increase the water supply of city of Washington amended.22 Stat., 168. That section three of an act approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An act to increase the water-supply of the city of Washington, and for other purposes” be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows:
Add to said section the following words: “*And provided further,* That 73 the Secretary of War and the Attorney General of the United States shall proceed to acquire to and for the United States the outstanding title, if necessary to such land and water rights as may be required for the erection of said fish-ways, in the manner and by the procedure prescribed in section one of this act for obtaining title to the right of way for the extension of the aqueduct ; and so much of the sum of fifty thousand dollars hereinabove appropriated as may be necessary for this purpose shall be available for the same”.
Approved, July 4, 1884.