United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 82
March 3, 1815.
Chap. LXXXII.—An Act concerning the naval establishment.
Appropriation of $200,000 annually for three years to purchase stock for ship building.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated annually for three years, towards the purchase and supply of a stock of every description of timber, required for ship building, and other naval purposes, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1815.