Chapter CXC. authorizing the construction of naval hospitals at the navy yards at Charlestown, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, New York, and Pensacola
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Chap. CXC.— An Act authorizing the construction of naval hospitals at the navy yards at Charlestown, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, New York, and Pensacola. July 10, 1832. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Naval hospitals to be constructed. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby authorized, under the direction of the President of the United States, to cause to be constructed, for the use of the navy of the United States, proper hospitals at or near each of the following places, to wit: the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, the navy yard, Brooklyn, New York, and the navy yard, Pensacola.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That there be, and hereby is, appropriatedAppropriation. for the construction of such hospital at Charlestown aforesaid, twenty-six thousand dollars; at Brooklyn aforesaid, twenty thousand dollars; and at Pensacola, thirty thousand dollars; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, July 10, 1832.