United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 3
III. Resolution directing a survey of certain parts of the coast of North Carolina.
The President requested to cause surveys to be made of the points of Cape Hatteras, &c.
Latitude and longitude to be ascertained.
Result to be reported to Congress.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, requested to cause surveys to be made of the points of Cape Hatteras, Cape Lookout and Cape Fear, and of the shoals of those capes, respectively; and to cause such an examination to be made of those capes and shoals, respectively, as will ascertain the practicability of erecting lighthouses, beacons, or buoys, on or near the extreme points of them, or either of them; and also to cause the latitude and longitude of the said capes, extreme points, and shoals, respectively, to be ascertained with as much exactness as may be practicable; and that the results of such surveys and examinations be reported to Congress.
Approved, January 19, 1819.