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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.Sess. I. Res. 1, 2, 3.1841.

RESOLUTIONS.

June 14, 1841.

No. 1. A Resolution manifesting the sensibility of Congress upon the event of the death of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States.

Preamble.The melancholy event of the death of William Henry Harrison, the late President of the United States, having occurred during the recess of Congress, and the two Houses sharing in the general grief and desiring to manifest their sensibility upon the occasion of that public bereavement, therefore

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Presiding officers’ chairs to be shrouded in black.
Usual badge of mourning to be worn. That the chairs of the President of the Senate and of the Speaker of the House of Representatives be shrouded in black during the residue of the session; and that the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the members and officers of both houses, wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.

Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to Mrs. Harrison,Pres. U. S. to send a copy hereof to Mrs. Harrison. and to assure her of the profound respect of the two Houses of Congress for her person and character, and of their sincere condolence on the late afflicting dispensation of Providence.

Approved, June 14, 1841.

Aug. 25, 1841.

No. 2. A Resolution relating to the light-boats now stationed at Sandy Hook and Bartlett’s Reef.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sec. Treasury may change light-boat stations, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, if upon full inquiry he deem it expedient, to cause the light-boat now stationed at Sandy Hook to be removed, and to be placed near Bartlett’s reef, in Long Island Sound; and whenever the same shall be so removed and placed, to cause the light-boat now at Bartlett’s reef to be removed, and placed, if he deem it expedient, near Execution Rocks, in Long Island Sound, with a bell only for the latter vessel, to be so fixed as to be rung by the motion of the sea.

Approved, August 25, 1841.

Sept. 1, 1841.

No. 3. A Resolution for the distribution of seven hundred copies of the Digest of Patents.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Commiss’r of Patents to send a certain number of copies to each state and territory. That the Commissioner of Patents be directed to send to the Secretary of State of each of the States of this Union, and of the territories of Florida, Wisconsin, and Iowa, the Digest of Patents published by the Commissioner of Patents, under the act of Congress, dated March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; to be disposed of as the Legislatures of each State and Territory may direct, viz: To the State of Maine twenty copies. To the State of New Hampshire ten copies. To the State of Massachusetts thirty copies. To the State of Rhode Island four copies. To the State of Connecticut twelve copies. To the State of Vermont eleven copies. To the State of New York ninety-eight copies. To the State of New Jersey fifteen copies. To the State of Pennsylvania sixty-nine copies. to the State of Delaware four copies. To the State of Maryland nineteen copies. To the State of Virginia fifty copies. To the State of North Carolina thirty-nine copies. To the State of South Carolina twenty-four copies. To the State of Georgia twenty-eight copies. To the State of Kentucky thirty-one copies. To the State of