United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 6
No. 6. Joint Resolution in relation to certain property purchased for the use of the United States at the port of Bath, in the State of Maine.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sec. Treas. to have charge of a lot sold as the property of the Bath Bank, and bought in by the United States. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have charge of a certain lot, with the buildings thereon and appurtenances, late the property of the President, Directors and Company of the Bath Bank, in the town of Bath, in the State of Maine, taken in execution at the suit of the United States, sold and bought in by the United States, some years since; and he shall have power to set apart the said premises for the use of a custom-house and such other public uses as he may judge to be expedient and proper, until the further order of Congress in the matter.
Approved, May 23, 1844.