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Volume 21

Public Law 46–77

to provide for the construction of a marine hospital in the city of Memphis, Tennessee.

Approved May 3, 1880

Statutory text

An act

to provide for the construction of a marine hospital in the city of Memphis, Tennessee.

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

That the Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to procure a proper site in or near the city of Memphis, Tennessee, and cause to be erected thereon a building suitable for a marine

Building to be erected.

hospital, after plans and specifications which shall be furnished under his direction by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department.

Sec. 2.

That the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof

Appropriation.

as may be necessary’ be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money now in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury, in the purchase of said site, and the erection of the aforesaid building thereon; and the cost of the

Cost of site and building limited to sum appropriated.

site and the erection of the building shall in no event exceed the sum hereby appropriated.

Approved, May 3, 1880.

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