Chapter C. for the relief of the City Council of Charleston, South Carolina
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Chap. C.— An Act for the relief of the City Council of Charleston, South Carolina. May 20, 1830. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, if so much be necessary, be applied by the Secretary of the Treasury toAppropriation for the erection of a marine hospital, &c. the erection, or purchase of a United States’ Marine Hospital for the sick and disabled seamen, at Charleston, South Carolina; and also to indemnify the City Council of Charleston for the damages which they have sustained, from being obliged to provide a building or buildings for such sick and disabled seamen, as would have been entitled to relief from the Marine Hospital Fund, in consequence of the failure of the Treasury Department to furnish the amount of fifteen thousand dollars, for the erection of a Marine Hospital according to the terms of a contract entered into in the year one thousand eight hundred and four, between the then Secretary of the Treasury, and the said City Council.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the sum of twenty-five thousandAppropriation. dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the foregoing purposes, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 20, 1830.