Chapter CLXIX. *to enable the Secretary of the Navy to purchase the Right of using Mix’s patent Manger-Stopper.* Aug. 8, 1846. *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 purchas
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Chap. CLXIX.— An Act *to enable the Secretary of the Navy to purchase the Right of using Mix’s patent Manger-Stopper.* Aug. 8, 1846. *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, August 8, 1846.