United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 21
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXI.—An Act authorizing the President of the United States to cause to be built, equipped and employed, one or more floating batteries for the defence of the waters of the United States.
Specific appropriation for building floating batteries.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of five hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of building, equipping, and putting into service, one or more floating batteries of such magnitude and construction as shall appear to the President of the United States best adapted to attack, repel, or destroy any of the ships of the enemy which may approach the shores or enter the waters of the United States; and the sum hereby appropriated shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 4, 1814.