OFFICIAL

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES

Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress

{Public Resolution – No. 25}

Joint Resolution declaring that the United States ought to co-operate with, affording pecuniary aid to any State which may adopt the gradual abolishment of slavery.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States ought to co-operate with any state which may adopt the gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in is discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.

Approved, April 10, 1862


{Public Resolution – No. 26}

Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to test plans and materials for rendering ships and floating batteries invulnerable.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be and hereby is authorize to expend, out of any money in the Treasure not otherwise appropriated, a sum not to exceed twenty five thousand dollars, for the purpose of testing plans and materials for rendering ships or floating batteries invulnerable.

Approved, April 10, 1862

– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Thursday, April 17, 1862