claims not otherwise provided for, and paid at the treasury, shall be laid before Congress at the beginning of each year, by the secretary of the proper department.
Approved, March 3, 1809.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
March 3, 1809.[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXIX.—An Act making a further appropriation towards completing the two wings of the Capitol at the city of Washington, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For improvements and repairs of the House of Representatives, six thousand dollars.
For completing the work in the interior of the north wing, comprising the Senate chamber, court room, &c. &c. twenty thousand dollars.
For completing the staircase, and providing temporary and adequate accommodations for the library, in the room now used for that purpose, and in the one in which the Senate now sit, five thousand dollars.
For improvements and repairs of the President’s house and square, including a carriage house, twelve thousand dollars.
Sec.2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums of money hereby appropriated shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1809.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
March 3, 1809.
Chap. XXX.—An Act supplementary to the act intituled “An act to amend the charter of Georgetown.”
Boundaries of Georgetown.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following shall, and are hereby declared to be the limits of Georgetown, in the district of Columbia, any law or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding, that is to say: beginning in the middle of College street, as laid down and designated in Fenwick’s map of the said town, at or near to the bank of the river Potomac; thence by a straight line drawn northernly through the middle of said street to the middle of First street; thence by a line drawn through the middle of First street to a point directly opposite to the termination of the eastern line of the lots now enclosed as the property of the college; thence northernly by the eastern line of said enclosure as far as the same extends; thence in the same northernly direction to the middle of Fourth street; thence eastwardly by a line drawn along the middle of Fourth street to a point at the distance of one hundred and twenty feet westward from the west side of Fayette street; thence northernly by a line drawn parallel to Fayette street at the said distance of one hundred and twenty feet westward from the west side thereof, until it intersects a boundary line of Beatty and Hawkins’ addition to Georgetown; thence westwardly by said boundary line as far as it extends; thence by the courses and distances of the several other boundary lines of Beatty and Hawkins’ addition aforesaid, that is to say: westwardly, northwardly, eastwardly, and southwardly, to a point opposite to the middle of Road street, and opposite or nearly opposite to the middle of Eighth street; thence eastwardly by a line drawn through the middle of Road street, as it now runs, and as far as it extends; thence eastwardly by a line drawn parallel to Back street, and continued in the same direction to the middle of Rock creek; thence by the middle of the same creek and the middle of the Potomac river to a
