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Act of Congress Authorizing Construction of the Old Naval Hospital

Signed by President Abraham Lincoln on March 14, 1864

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March 14, 1864

An Act to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Services of the Fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for other Purposes.

Deficiency appropriations for 1864

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: -

Southeast Executive building.

For contingent expenses of the Southeast executive building, including the extension, viz: For fuel, labor, light, and miscellaneous items, thirteen thousand three hundred and five dollars.

Branch mint at Denver.

For supplying deficiencies in the current expenses of the branch mint at Denver, for the current fiscal year, eighteen thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty-nine cents.

Interior Department

Interior Department - For compensation of returns clerk, from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, six-hundred dollars.

Surveyor-general

For compensation of the surveyor-general of Illinois and Missouri, to the thirty-first of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, when the

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