Volume 21
Public Law 46–5
to authorize the laying of a telegraphic cable from the main land in Rhode Island to Block Island.
Approved January 14, 1880
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the laying of a telegraphic cable from the main land in Rhode Island to Block Island.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and is hereby appropriated for the purpose of laying a telegraphic cable, under the direction of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, from the main land of Rhode Island to Block Island, Rhode Island.
Approved, January 14, 1880.