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NINETEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 5. 1826.

a site for a drydock at certainnavy yards.

mouth, New Hampshire; Charlestown, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, NewYork; and Gosport, Virginia ; and that such engineer be required tostate the dimensions necessary for such docks, the advantages of each ofthe above-named places for such establishment, the objections that applyto either, with a detailed estimate of the expense of a suitable site, andof constructing a dock at each of said places; and that the President berequested to communicate the same to Congress in the first week of thenext session.

Approved, May 22, 1826.