Excerpt from Public Documents Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States, First Session of the Twenty-Eighth Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Washington, December 4, 1843, in the Sixty-Eighth Year of the Independence of the United States, Vol. 1 of 7: Containing Document No. 1 Green. Report of the Committee on Naval Affairs on the petition of George Rip, praying a renewal of the pension of Margaret 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.