United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 2
Appearance
April 4, 1838.
No. 2. A Resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to purchase a site for a fort at or near the western boundary of Arkansas.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation for the purchase of a site for a fort.
1836, ch. 62. That out of the appropriation of fifty thousand dollars, made in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, to remove the United States troops from Fort Gibson, the Secretary of War be authorized and directed to take a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars to purchase for the United States a site for a fort at or near the western boundary or Arkansas.
Approved, April 4, 1838.