[Act of Feb. 10, 1807, Sess. II, ch. 8, 2 Stat. 413-14 (1807)]
NINTH CONGRESS. SESS II. CH. 5, 8. 1807
CHAP. VIII. An Act to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States shall be, and he is
hereby authorized and requested, to cause a survey to be taken of the coasts of the United States,
in which shall be designated the islands and shoals, with the roads or places of anchorage, within
twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States; and also the respective courses and
distances between the principal capes, or head lands, together with such other matters as he may
deem proper for completing an accurate chart of every part of the coasts within the extent
aforesaid.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United
States to cause such examinations and observations to be made, with respect to St. George's
bank, and any other bank or shoal and the soundings and currents beyond the distance aforesaid
to the Gulf Stream, as in his opinion may be especially subservient to the commercial interests of
the United States.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall be, and
he is hereby authorized and requested, for any of the purposes aforesaid, to cause proper and
intelligent persons to be employed, and also such of the public vessels in actual service, as he
may judge expedient, and to give such instructions for regulating their conduct as to him may
appear proper, according the the tenor of this act.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for carrying this act into effect there shall be,
and hereby is appropriated, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any
monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
APPROVED, February 10, 1807.
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