An act relating to revenue cutters and steamers

An act relating to revenue cutters and steamers
Long title	An act relating to revenue cutters and steamers
Enacted by	the 28th United States Congress
Citations
Statutes at Large	5 Stat. 795
Legislative history
	Introduced in the Senate; Vetoed by President John Tyler on February 20, 1845; Overridden by the Senate on March 3, 1845 (41-1); Overridden by the House of Representatives and became law on March 3, 1845 (127-30);

An act relating to revenue cutters and steamers, ch. 78, 5 Stat. 795, is an Act of Congress from March 3, 1845, which became the first bill passed after Congress overrode a presidential veto.[1]

The Act stated: "no revenue cutter or revenue steamer shall hereafter be built (excepting such as are now in the course of building and equipment) nor purchased, unless an appropriation be first made, by law, therefor."[2]

References

Harness, Gregory (February 1992). "Presidential Vetoes, 1789-1988" (PDF). The U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
Acts and Resolutions Passed at the Second Session of the Twenty-eighth Congress of the United States. authority. 1844. pp. 114.

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[1] Harness, Gregory (February 1992). "Presidential Vetoes, 1789-1988" (PDF). The U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 11 May 2018.

[2] Acts and Resolutions Passed at the Second Session of the Twenty-eighth Congress of the United States. authority. 1844. pp. 114.