United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 18

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4110637United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Eighth Congress, First Session, Resolution No. 18United States Congress


June 17, 1844.

No. 18. Joint Resolution tendering the thanks of Congress to the British authorities at Gibraltar, and the commander, officers, and crew of her Britannic Majesty’s ship Malabar.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,President to communicate to them the high sense of Congress of their zeal displayed on the burning of the Missouri. That the President of the United States be requested to communicate to the British Government, in such manner as he may deem proper, the high sense entertained by Congress of the generous zeal displayed by the British authorities at Gibraltar, and the commander, officers and crew of her Britannic Majesty’s ship Malabar, in endeavoring to save from destruction the American steam frigate Missouri, and in preserving the lives of her officers and crew, as well as of the kindness and hospitality which characterized their treatment of the ship’s company of that vessel, after her unfortunate destruction by fire.

Approved, June 17, 1844.