Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to allow to William P. S. Sanger and George F. de la Roche the amounts paid by them for expenses incurred, in obedience to an order from the Navy Department, dated October thirty, eighteen hundred and forty-three, directing them to make the surveys and examinations required by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, in reference to the construction of a dry dock at New York; which expenses the Secretary of the Navy expressly stipulated should be paid.

Approved, January 26, 1849.