Volume 9
Public Law 29–CLXIX
to enable the Secretary of the Navy to purchase the Right of using Mix’s patent Manger-Stopper.
Approved August 8, 1846
Statutory text
An Act
to enable the Secretary of the Navy to purchase the Right of using Mix’s patent Manger-Stopper.
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 be, and he is hereby, authorized to purchase
Secretary of the Navy authorized to purchase right of using Mix’s patent manger-stopper.
Limitation of price.
of Mrs. Ann Mix, widow of M. P. Mix, late master commandant in the navy, the unlimited power to use a machine called a “manger-stopper,” in all ships of war or other vessels belonging to the United States: Provided, An assignment thereof can be obtained at a cost not exceeding three thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .