Chapter 58. authorizing the purchase of tents by the Secretary of War, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 58.— An Act authorizing the purchase of tents by the Secretary of War, and for other purposes.March 31, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Purchase of tents.For use of flood-sufferers in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to purchase twenty-five hundred tents, or so many thereof as may be necessary, for the use of the people driven from their homes in the states of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana by the present floods prevailing in said states.
Sec. 2. That said tents shall be loaned to the authorities of saidSecretary of War may loan. States for the purposes aforesaid, at the discretion of the Secretary of War. Sec. 3. That twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof asAppropriation. may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay for the said tents herein authorized to be purchased; and this appropriationImmediately available. shall be available upon the passage of this act.
Approved, March 31, 1890.