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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · Dec. 18, 1884 · Chapter 2

Chapter 2. authorizing the Secretary of State to procure duplicates of certain French and American medals

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CHAP. 2.— An Act authorizing the Secretary of State to procure duplicates of certain French and American medals.Dec. 18, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,French and American medals.Appropriation. That the sum of seventy-five dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of State to procure duplicates of certain French and American medals,Duplication of presented to Congress by George W.
Erving, for the use of the National Library, anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty-two, which being shipwrecked and lost were replaced by Mr. Erving, and which were destroyed by the fire in the Library in eighteen hundred and fifty-one. Approved, December 18th, 1884. (279)
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