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Sec. (. Be II fHEsher eeucfad. That in every case oi the loss Of capture afa vessel belonging to the navy U States. the accounting officers of the treas. Hry, under the drectionef the Secretary ofthe Na- VI, shall be, and they a@ hereby authorized in the settlement of the aecoun of the paFser of such yes se, to credit him with soch portion of the amount of the provisions. elethisg small stores and money, with which he stands ehsrged on the books of the FodFth Auditor Of the Treasury, as they shall be satisfied, was inesitablg lost by spch capture, or loss of a public vessel Band such pusscr shaii be fully exonerated by s1cN credit. from all liability on account of the pToFisns. clothing, small stores and money, so proved } have been captured or lost.

 Sec : .7nd bc ti f1rlksr eaacte3 That ti.o See. retary Of the Navy be. a he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause sue experiments To be made under the immediate direetion and supernieaaence of trfaii BreEH, sAak issEoazis!F tes. t;sa e!- cient properties of liquid fire. and the practical utility of a shot-prool steamship (ihe invention ol said Brown) for coasts and haFbor defrnce 1; said experiments 10 be made in the presence oi cospe- tent judges 10 be selected bythe Secretary of the Navy for that purpose and ii shall be the dRty oi the said Secretary to report 10 Congress. at the earliest practicable peficd thereafter the resaH of saeh experiments anA his opiDon whether tte ia- terest of the United States would be promoted by adopting this invention as a means of national de- fence. That said Brown shall receive. ihe sum ui six dollars per day while engaged in making said experiments, together with all his travelling and other necessary expense Prorided, He shall not be so employed for time exceeding six months And that sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars be, and tie same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for deiraying the expenses of said experiments.

 JOHN W. DAVIS, Speaker

 Of he House Representatives.

 c. NJ. DALLAS,

 President ofthe Senaie. Approved, March 3, 1877.

 JAS. K. POLK.