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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 24 STAT. · April 22, 1886 · Chapter 61

Chapter 61.

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CHAP. 61.— An act to establish a light-ship off the entrance to Chesapeake Bay.April 22, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Light-ship to be established at entrance to Chesapeake Bay. *Proviso*. That there be constructed and established a first-class light-ship, with a steam fog-signal, off the entrance to Chesapeake Bay. The cost of which shall not exceed the sum of sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the construction of said light ship shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder after advertisement, and that said light-ship shall be built in American shipyards. Approved, April 22, 1886.
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