United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 27

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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 3
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2617335United States Statutes at Large, Volume 3 — Public Acts of the Thirteenth Congress, 3rd Session, Chapter 27United States Congress


Jan. 30, 1815.

Chap. XXVII.An Act to authorize the purchase of the library of Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United States.

Library of Thomas Jefferson to be purchased.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 he is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be paid to the joint library committee of Congress, or their order, the sum of twenty-three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, in Treasury notes of the issue ordered by law of the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen; to be by them applied to the purchase of the library of Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United States, for the use of Congress.

Approved, January 30, 1815.