Chapter XXXI.- An Act for procuring an additional number of Arms, and for the purchase of saltpetre and sulphur. March 11, 1808
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a sum of money not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of procuring by purchase, or causing to be manufactured within the United States, and under the direction of the President of the United States, an additional number of stands of arms to be deposited in safe and suitable places. And for the purchase of saltpetre and sulphur, a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
APPROVED, March 11, 1808.
By Thomas Jefferson
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