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Volume 21

Public Law 46–10

directing the removal of obstructions from the harbor at the Delaware Breakwater.

Approved January 23, 1880

Statutory text

An Act

directing the removal of obstructions from the harbor at the Delaware Breakwater.

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

That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be removed from the harbor at the Delaware Breakwater and the entrance thereto and in the main ship channel of the Delaware Bay and River several vessels which were sunk in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and now forming obstructions endangering the safety of vessels entering said harbor after reasonable notice to the owners of such vessels to remove the same, and

Notice.

Appropriation.

the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for that purpose, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, January 23, 1880.

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