Volume 27
Public Law 52–73
to authorize the construction of a telephone line on the coast of Virginia from Cape Charles to Assateague Island, in aid of the preservation of life and property.
Approved May 13, 1892
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the construction of a telephone line on the coast of Virginia from Cape Charles to Assateague Island, in aid of the preservation of life and property.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to establish a telephone line upon the coast of Virginia from Cape Charles to Assateague Island, providing telephonic communication between the lifesaving stations upon said coast and connecting said line from some convenient point with a locality where telegraphic communication may be had with the principal seaports of the Atlantic coast.
Sec. 2.
That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this
Appropriation.
act the sum of fifteen thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available.
Approved, May 13, 1892.