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Public Law 39–CLII
to amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Construction of a Jail in and for the District of Columbia,” approved June [July] twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Approved March 2, 1867
Statutory text
An Act
to amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Construction of a Jail in and for the District of Columbia,” approved June [July] twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That so much of the sixth section of the act entitled “An act authorizing the construction of a jail in and for the District of Columbia,” approved June [July] twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as specifies the amounts to be raised and paid into the treasury of the United States by the cities of Washington and Georgetown, respectively, before the completion of said jail, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the proper authorities of the city of Washington, and they are hereby required, to raise, by tax or otherwise, and pay into the treasury of the United States, at or before the time of the completion of said jail, the sum of seventy-eight thousand dollars; and it shall be the like duty of the proper authorities of the city of Georgetown, and they are hereby required, to raise, by tax or otherwise, and pay into the treasury of the United States, at or before the time of the completion of said jail, the sum of twelve thousand dollars.
Approved, .