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 RESOLUTION

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be directed to request the government of the state of Pennsylvania to cede to the United States jurisdiction over such lands as are owned by the United States, and improved for public purposes, at the navy yard near Philadelphia.

, January 24, 1827.