United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 191
Chap. CXCI.—An Act to carry into effect the act to provide for a survey of the coast of the United States.[1]
Appropriation for surveying coasts.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for carrying into effect the act, entitled “An act to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States,” approved on the tenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seven, there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the said act is hereby revived, and shall be deemed to provide for the survey of the coasts of Florida, in the same manner as if the same had been named therein.
President authorized to use maps, &c., and to employ persons.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized, in and about the execution of the said act, to use all maps, charts, books, instruments, and apparatus, which now, or hereafter may belong to the United States, and employ all persons in the land or naval service of the United States, and such astronomers and other persons as he shall deem proper: Provided, That nothing in this act, or the act hereby revived, shall be construed to authorize the construction or maintenance of a permanent astronomical observatory.
Approved, July 10, 1832.
- ↑ Act of February 10, 1807, vol. ii. p. 413.>Notes of acts relating to the survey of the coasts of the United States, vol. ii. p. 414.