Volume 2
Public Law 11–XX
making an appropriation for the purpose of trying the practical use of the Torpedo or Submarine Explosion.
Approved March 30, 1810
Statutory text
An Act
making an appropriation for the purpose of trying the practical use of the Torpedo or Submarine Explosion.
Be it enacted by the Senate. and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense which shall be incurred in any actual experiments, when the President of the United States shall deem it expedient to cause such experiments to be made, which shall be made under the immediate direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for the purpose of ascertaining with precision how far the torpedo or submarine explosions may be use-fully employed as engines of war, who is hereby directed to report to Congress the result of the experiment with his opinion thereon.
Approved, .