Chapter XXI. *making an appropriation for the purchase of naval ordnance and ordnance stores, and for other purposes.* Sept. 11, 1841. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of six Appropriation to purchase ordnan
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Chap. XXI.— An Act *making an appropriation for the purchase of naval ordnance and ordnance stores, and for other purposes.* Sept. 11, 1841. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of six Appropriation to purchase ordnance and ordnance stores.hundred thousand dollars be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of purchasing ordnance and ordnance stores, for the use of the Navy of the United States.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Navy is Sec. Navy to make certain experiments.hereby authorized to apply a part of the sum herein and hereby appropriated, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to the purpose of making experiments to test the value of improvements in ordnance, in the construction of steamers, and other vessels of war, and in other matters connected with the naval service and the national defence; and also to the purpose of defraying any charges left unpaid on account of experiments of the like character heretofore made by authority of law.
Approved, September 11, 1841.