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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 28 STAT. · July 18, 1894 · Chapter 145

Chapter 145. To authorize Professor Asaph Hall, of the United States Navy, to accept a gold medal from the Academy of Science of France

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CHAP. 145.— An Act To authorize Professor Asaph Hall, of the United States Navy, to accept a gold medal from the Academy of Science of France.July 18, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Asaph Hall.May accept medal from Academy of Sciences, France. That Professor Asaph Hall, of the United States Naval Observatory, be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept from the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of France a gold medal, known as the Arago prize medal, awarded in recognition of scientific, services. Approved, July 18, 1894.
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