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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · May 1, 1888 · Chapter 208

Chapter 208. to provide for protecting the navigation of the Illinois River by extending the system of beacon-lights to said river

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CHAP. 208.— An Act to provide for protecting the navigation of the Illinois River by extending the system of beacon-lights to said river.May 1, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Illinois River. That the Light-House Board be, and it is hereby, directed to establish such number of beacon-lights along the Illinois River as may. in the judgment ofBeacon-lights. said board, be necessary for the proper protection of the navigation of said river: *Provided*, That the cost of the same shall not exceed seven thousand dollars,*Proviso*.Cost.Appropriation. which sum is hereby appropriated for that purpose, to be expended under the supervision of the Light-House Board for the purpose herein provided.
Approved, May 1, 1888.
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