United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 130

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 3
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Public Acts of the Fourteenth Congress, 1st Session, Chapter 130
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April 27, 1816.

Chap. CXXX.An Act to enable the Levy Court of the county of Alexandria to lay a tax for the purpose of defraying the expense of erecting a jail and courthouse.

A tax to be laid on the county on Alexandria for building a jail and courthouse in Alexandria.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of the county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, to raise, by a tax upon the taxable inhabitants of the said county, a sum sufficient to defray the expense of building a jail and courthouse, for the said county, which sum shall be appropriated to the erection of such buildings accordingly under the direction of the said court.

Approved, April 27, 1816.