United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 58
Chap. LVIII.—An Act to repeal part of the act, entitled “An act to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States.”
None but persons belonging to army and navy to be employed in surveying the coasts.
Act of Feb. 10, 1807, ch. 8.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the third section of the act, passed the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled “An act to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States,” as authorizes the employment of other persons in the execution of said act, than the persons belonging to the army and navy, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Instruments, surveys, drafts, charts, &c. to be deposited as the President directs.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all instruments and property of the United States, and all surveys, drafts, notes, charts, maps, and documents, in any wise belonging to the survey of the coasts, be deposited in such place as the President of the United States shall direct.
Approved, April 14, 1818.