[Printer’s No., 311. 
4Gth CONGRESS, 
1st Session. 
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
April 21, 1879. 
Read twice, referred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and 
ordered to be printed. 
Mr. Casey Yoexg, on leave, introduced the following bill: 
A BILL, 
To provide for the construction of a marine hospital in the city of 
Memphis, Tennessee. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represenia- 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service he, 
and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to procure a 
proper site in or near the city of Memphis, Tennessee, and 
cause to be erected thereon a building suitable for a marine 
hospital, after plans and specifications, which shall he fur- 
nished under his direction by the Supervising Architect of 
the Treasury Department. 
Sec. 2. That the sum of forty thousand dollars, or so 
much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, 
appropriated out of any money now in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury upon the warrant of I he Surgeon-General of 
the Marine Hospital Service, in the purchase of said site, and 
the erection of the aforesaid building thereon. 
AraiL 21,1879.—Read twice, referred to the Committee on 
Public Buildings and Grounds, and ordered to be 
printed. 
A BILL 
To provide for the construction of a marine hos- 
pital in the city of Memphis, Tennessee. 
46th CONGRESS, 
1st Session. 
H. R. 719