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Chapter XVI.- An act authorizing the purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores, camp equipage and other Quartermaster's stores and small arms. January 14, 1812

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purchase, under the direction of the President of the United States, of ordnance and ordnance stores, camp equipage and other quartermaster's stores for the use of the army of the United States.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of four hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purchase, under the direction of tile President of the United States, of saltpeter and sulphur, for making the same into powder, and for ordnance and shall arms for the use of the navy of the United States.

APPROVED, January 14, 1812.

By James Madison

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