Chapter 136.
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CHAP. 136.— An act to provide for keeping open the Potomac River.February 12, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia. Appropriation to keep the Potomac River open during winter. That the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purpose of keeping open the Potomac River during the winters of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and eighteen hundred and ninety, the same to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia Immediately available.one-half to be charged to the United States and the other half to the District of Columbia, and to be immediately available.
Approved, February 12, 1889.