United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 268
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Aug. 29, 1842.
Chap. CCLXVIII.—An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to contract for the purchase, for the United States, of the right to use Babbit’s anti-attrition metal.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Authority to contract for the purchase thereof. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized to contract for the purchase, from the proprietor of the patented interest therein, for the United States, of the right to use Babbit’s anti-attrition metal in the construction of machinery and other work; subject to the ratification of Congress.
Approved, August 29, 1842.