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42nd Congress · 1871–1873
H.R. 793
A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines and to secure to the Gov…
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Latest action: Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementa… · January 8, 1872 Understand the measure
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Read twice, referred to the Committee on the Public Lands, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced the following bill: A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal military and other purposes approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Recorded January 8, 1872, as the clerk wrote it
Official title
A Bill Supplementary to an act entitled An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal military and other purposes approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
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