United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 47
Chap. XLVII.—An Act authorizing the construction of a dry-dock for the naval service.
Appropriation for the purchase of a site and the construction of a dry-dock in the harbour of New York.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President of the United States, be, and he is hereby, authorized to purchase a site, should it be deemed most advisable, and to cause a dry-dock for the naval service to be constructed, upon the most approved plan, in the harbour of New York, or its adjacent waters; and that toward defraying the expense thereof, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1835.