Aug. 11, 1848.
(No. 25.)—A Resolution granting to the Jackson Monument Committee certain brass Guns and Mortars, captured by General Andrew Jackson, and for other Purposes.
The brass guns captured by General Jackson at Pensacola to be delivered to the Jackson Monument Committee, to be used for the construction of a monument.
A portion of the public ground in the city of Washington granted as a site for said monument.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and requested to cause to be delivered to the Jackson Monument Committee, in the city of Washington, the brass guns and mortars captured by General Andrew Jackson at Pensacola, and referred to in a statement of the Chief of the Ordnance Office, dated fourteenth April, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to be used by the said committee as material for the construction of the monument to that distinguished patriot; and the said committee is hereby authorized to erect the said monument upon such portion of the public grounds in the city of Washington as may be designated for that purpose by the President of the United States.
Approved, August 11, 1848.

Printed Document, 1 page(s), Public Acts, IX, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 340