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Volume 11

Public Law 34–LXXXII

to alter and amend “An Act to appropriate Money to remove Obstructions in the Savannah River, below the City of Savannah, in the State of Georgia,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.

Approved August 7, 1856

Statutory text

An Act

to alter and amend “An Act to appropriate Money to remove Obstructions in the Savannah River, below the City of Savannah, in the State of Georgia,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Application of balance of appropriation of 1855, ch. 170, for removing obstructions in Savannah River.

That the balance of the unexpended appropriation made by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, “for removing certain obstructions in the Savannah River,” may be, and is hereby authorized to be applied, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to remove the bars, shoals, banks, and other impediments in said river, caused by said obstructions, as proposed in the project of the commissioners, approved by the War Department in

Vol. x. p. 640.

February, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.

Approved, .

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