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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 23 STAT. · Dec. 20, 1884 · Chapter 4

Chapter 4. granting the right of way to the city of Newport, Rhode Island, over the breakwater at Goat Island

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CHAP. 4.— An Act granting the right of way to the city of Newport, Rhode Island, over the breakwater at Goat Island.Dec. 20, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Right of way granted to the city of Newport, R. I., across breakwater at Goat Island, for drainage.*Proviso*. That the city of Newport, Rhode Island, is hereby granted the right to construct and maintain a sewer for drainage purposes through or across the breakwater at Goat Island, subject to such conditions as the Secretary of War may prescribe: *Provided*, That such conditions shall be accepted by the city of Newport before the work herein authorized shall be commenced.
Approved, December twentieth, 1884.
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