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Public Law 38–CCLI
making an Appropriation for testing Submarine Inventions.
Approved July 4, 1864
Statutory text
An Act
making an Appropriation for testing Submarine Inventions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
Appropriation for testing certain submarine inventions.
the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose of testing submarine batteries and other inventions, to be applied under the directionTHIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 252. 1864. of the Secretary of the Navy to experiment upon such devices for submarine operations as may be recommended as worthy of practical test by a commission of competent naval officers and scientific men, now or hereafter to be organized for their examination.
Approved, .