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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 4 STAT. · March 3, 1826 · Chapter VII

Chapter VII. making appropriations for the purchase of books, and defraying certain expenses for the use of the Library of Congress

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Chap. VII.— An Act making appropriations for the purchase of books, and defraying certain expenses for the use of the Library of Congress. March 3, 1826. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * 5000 dollars appropriated for the purchase of books for the library of Congress. That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of books, under the direction of the joint library committee, for the use of the library of Congress.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the sum of two hundred andPurchasing of two stoves, &c. ninety-five dollars and twenty-five cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for defraying the expense for two stoves, and nine tons of coal, for the use of the library of Congress. Approved, March 3, 1826.
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