United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 5
V. Resolution directing surveys and estimates for dry docks.
President of the United States to cause an examination, &c., to be made, for a site for a dry dock at certain navy yards.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States cause an examination and accurate survey to be made by a skilful engineer, of a site for a dry dock, at the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Charlestown, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; and Gosport, Virginia; and that such engineer be required to state the dimensions necessary for such docks, the advantages of each of the above-named places for such establishment, the objections that apply to either, with a detailed estimate of the expense of a suitable site, and of constructing a dock at each of said places; and that the President be requested to communicate the same to Congress in the first week of the next session.
Approved, May 22, 1826.