United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 13
XIII. Resolution directing the completion of the survey of the waters of the Chesapeake bay, and for other purposes.
Surveys preparatory to the establishment of two naval arsenals to be resumed and completed, &c.
Plans of fortifications and estimate of expense.
Survey of the Chesapeake Bay, &c.
Report with a plan, &c.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, requested to cause to be resumed and completed the surveys heretofore commenced, preparatory to the establishment of two naval arsenals; and that, to the naval officers employed in this service, officers of the corps of engineers be joined, with instructions to prepare plans of the fortifications necessary to be erected for the defence of such arsenals, with an estimate of the expense of erecting the same. And that the President be further requested to cause such a survey of the Chesapeake Bay to be made, as may be requisite to ascertain what points are necessary to be fortified for the protection of the commerce of said bay; and a report of the same, with a plan of the works necessary to be erected, with an estimate of the expense of the same, to be made to Congress in the first week of their next session.
Approved, April 20, 1818.