Excerpt from Public Documents Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States, During the Second Session of the Twenty-Ninth Congress, Vol. 1 of 3: Begun and Held at the City of Washington, December 7, 1846, and in the Seventy-First Year of the Independence of the United States; Containing Documents From No. 1 to No. 3 Hm. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs on the memorial of M. 8. Bart, J. Kelly, and W. Close, securities of the late Purser Benjamin F. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.