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Iiinnediatcly after l)cint;- thus Ict^islated out of office he was appointed 

 one of the astronomers to represent the United vStates in the settlement 

 of the Canadian boundary. 



From 18 19 to 1S32 attempts were made at various times l)y the Navy 

 Department to survey several portions of the coast. A few detached sur- 

 veys were made, l)Ut no general sy.stematic work was attempted, and the 

 result was not on the whole creditable. In 1828 the Hon. vS. L,. Southard 

 of New Jersey, at that time vSecretary of the Navy, in response to resolu- 

 tions of inquiry from the House of Representatives, admitted that the 

 charts produced by the Navy were unreliable and unnecessarily expen- 

 sive, and declarino- also that the plan which had been employed was 

 desultory and unproductive, recommended that the provisions of the law 

 of 1807 should be resumed. 



In 1832 Congress passed an act reorganizing the surveys on the old 

 plan. 



AN ACT to carry into effect the act to provide for a survey of the Coasts of the United States. 



[Sec I.] Be it enacted, etc.. That for carrying into effect the act entitled "An act 

 to provide for surveying the coasts of the United States," approved on the loth day of 

 February, 1807, there shall be, and hereby is, appropriated a sum not exceeding 

 twenty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any monej^ in the Treasury not otherwise 

 appropriated ; and the said act is hereby revived, and shall be deemed to provide 

 for the survey of the coasts of Florida in the same manner as if the same had been 

 named therein. 



[Sec 2.] That the President of the United States be, and he is hereb}-, authorized, 

 in and about the execiition of the said act, to use all maps, charts, books, instruments, 

 and apparatus, which now or hereafter may belong to the United States, and employ 

 all persons in the land and naval service of the United States, and such astronomers 

 and other persons as he shall deem proper. 



Hassler was now again appointed Superintendent of the Coast Survey, 

 and held his position until his death in 1843, the work for a short time, 

 at first, being assigned to the Treasury Department, and in 1834 trans- 

 ferred to the Navy Department, and in 1836 again retransferred to the 

 Treasury, where it has since remained, its status being finally definitely- 

 settled by act of Congress passed in 1843, shortly before the appointment 

 of Alexander Dallas Bache, as the successor of the first Superintendent of 

 the Survej'. 



At the time of Ha.ssler's death the .survey had been extended from New 

 York, where it was begun, eastward to Point Judith, and southward to 

 Cape Henlopen. 



It .should be mentioned that in 1825, during the period of the suspen- 

 sion of activity, Has.sler presented to the American Philosophical Society 

 a memoir on the .subject of the survey, which contained a full account of 

 the plan which he had adopted, a description of his instruments, and a 

 history of what had been accomplished up to 18 17. "This memoir," 

 wTote Professor Henry in 1845, " was received with much favor by com- 



