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Public Law 38–CCXII
to authorize the United States to acquire Land in Wall about Bay, belonging to the City of Brooklyn, and to authorize the Exchange of other Lands therefor.
Approved July 2, 1864
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the United States to acquire Land in Wall about Bay, belonging to the City of Brooklyn, and to authorize the Exchange of other Lands therefor.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
Lands in Wallabout Bay.
the Secretary of the NavyTHIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 213, 214. 1864. be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to negotiate with the city of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, and to effect an exchange of lands in Wallabont Bay between the United States and the said city, and thereupon to make, execute, and deliver good and sufficient deeds and releases therefor.
Approved, .