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Public Law 19–LXXXVII
to authorize the Secretary of the War Department to purchase a site for an arsenal at St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, and to provide for the erection of an arsenal on the same.
Approved May 20, 1826
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the Secretary of the War Department to purchase a site for an arsenal at St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, and to provide for the erection of an arsenal on the same.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the War Department be, and is hereby, authorized to purchase, as NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 89, 90, 109. 1826.
in the vicinity of St. Louis.
soon as it can be effected, on reasonable terms, a site for an arsenal, at or in the vicinity of St. Louis, Missouri; and to cause to be erected such an arsenal on the same, as may be deemed proper for the safe keeping of the arms and munitions of the United States, on that frontier; and that for these purposes the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of the moneys of [in] the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .