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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 5 STAT. · Aug. 29, 1842 · Chapter CCXXVII

Chapter CCXXVII. *to make an appropriation for certain expenses in the erection of a penitentiary in the Territory of Iowa.* Aug. 29, 1842. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of Appropriation for work done, &c.fifteen thousan

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Chap. CCXXVII.— An Act *to make an appropriation for certain expenses in the erection of a penitentiary in the Territory of Iowa.* Aug. 29, 1842. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of Appropriation for work done, &c.fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, granted and appropriated, out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, to pay for work heretofore actually done and materials furnished in the construction of a penitentiary in the Territory of Iowa; but no further work or materials are hereby authorized to be done or furnished for the completion of said penitentiary, on the faith of future appropriations by Congress, but the same are expressly prohibited.
Approved, August 29, 1842.
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