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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Res. 7,8,10 3 12. 1842.
Aug. 11,1842.
Employmentof a temporaryclerk author-ized.
Aug. 16, 1842.
Benefits of theact not to bewithheld fromcertain widows.
1838, ch. 189.
Aug. 30,1842.
Aug. 31,1842.
Secretary ofthe Navy torender facilitiesto Mr. Colt totest his subma-rine battery,and report toCongress .
Proviso.
No. 7. Joint Resolution to authorize the commission appointed to prepare rulesand regulations for the naval service to appoint a clerk.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of theNavy be, and he is hereby, authorized, agreeably to his request, to em-ploy a temporary clerk for the purpose of aiding the Attorney Generaland himself in carrying into effect the resolution of the twenty-fourthMay, eighteen hundred and forty-two, which requires of them the pre-paration of rules and regulations for the Navy .
Approved, August 11, 1842.
No. 8. A Resolution declarative of the pension act of July seventh, eighteen hun-dred and thirty-eight.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the benefits of the actentitled “ An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows,”approved the seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight,shall not be withheld from any widow whose husband died after the pas-sage of the act of the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and before the act of the seventh July, eighteen hundred andthirty-eight, if otherwise entitled to the same.
Approved, August 16, 1842.
No. 10. Joint Resolution to institute proceedings to ascertain the title to RushIsland, ceded in the Caddo Treaty.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the District Attorneyof the United States for the Western District of Louisiana be, and ishereby directed to institute such legal proceedings in the proper courtas may be necessary to vindicate the right of the United States to RushIsland, which is alleged to have been improperly included in the limitsof the lands ceded by the Caddo Indians to the United States , by thetreaty of the first July, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and reservedby said treaty in favour of certain persons by the name of Grappe.
Approved, August 30, 1842.
No. 12. Joint Resolution authorizing experiments to be made for the purpose oftesting Samuel Colt ’s submarine battery, and for other purposes.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of theNavy be, and he is hereby, instructed to render Mr. Samuel Colt facili-ties to test his submarine battery to an extent which will settle the ques-tions whether these or any other plan can, with ease and safety, suc-cessfully be employed as a power sufficient to destroy the largest classof ships of war, when in motion passing in or out of harbor, without thenecessity of approach within reach of shot from guns of the largestcaliber; and whether continued operations of the destruction of one ormore vessels can be effected with renewing the means under exposureof an advancing squadron; and whether the same can be used for thedefence of a harbor without endangering the passage in or out of otherthan hostile vessels. And that he report at the next session of Congress ,the expense and result of these experiments : Provided, That the amountso expended does not exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, to betaken from the fund appropriated by the act of eleventh of September,eighteen hundred and forty-one, for experiments connected with thenaval service of the United States .