United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 93
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XCIII.—An Act authorizing an examination and survey or the harbor of Memphis, in Tennessee.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Examination and survey with a view to the establishment of a naval depot. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be made an examination and survey of the harbor of Memphis, in the State of Tennessee, in reference to the expediency of establishing a naval depot yard for the building and repairing steam ships and other vessels of war at that place, and that he report to Congress the result of such examination and survey;Appropriation therefor. and that the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury unappropriated, to defray the expenses of such examination and survey.
Approved, March 3, 1843.
- ↑ An act to establish a navy yard and depot at or adjacent to the city of Memphis, on the Mississippi river, in the State of Tennessee; June 15, 1844, chap. 52.
A resolution to suspend a part of the third section of the joint resolution of 11th Sept. 1841, relating to armories; Feb. 13, 1845.