United States Statutes at Large/Volume 30/55th Congress/2nd Session/Resolution 44
Joint Resolution Directing the Secretary of \Var to submit plans and estimates for the improvement of Tampa Bay, Florida, from Port Tampa to its month, in the Gulf of Mexico.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled,Tampa Bay, Florida.
Plans, etc., for improvement of. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to submit plans and estimates for the improvement of Tampa Bay, from Port Tampa to the mouth of the bay, in the Gulf of Mexico, so as to give a depth of water thirty feet deep at mean low water, five hundred feet wide on the bar at the entrance of Tampa Bay, and three hundred feet wide in the bay itself; and that the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, requested to inform Congress of his views as to the advisability of the proposed improvement.
Approved, June 4, 1898.