it shall also be to contract for, and superintend the enclosing and improvements of the public square, under the direction [of the President] of the United States.
Compensation to the commissioner.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the said commissioner a salary of two thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Plans, &c. to be delivered to the commissioner.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of such persons as may have been appointed to superintend the repairing of the public buildings, to deliver up unto the commissioner who shall be appointed in virtue of this act, all plans, draughts, books, records, accounts, contracts, bonds, obligations, securities and other evidence of debt in their possession which belong to their offices.
Office of superintendent abolished on the 3d March, 1817.
Its duties to devolve on commissioner of public buildings.
Act of May 1, 1802, ch. 41.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the third day of March next, the office of superintendent, established by act of Congress of first May, one thousand eight hundred and two, shall cease, and thereafter the duties of said office shall be performed by the commissioner to be appointed by virtue of this act; and to whom the superintendent shall deliver all documents, securities, books and papers, relating to said office; and from and after the third of March next, the commissioner aforesaid shall be vested with all the powers and perform all the duties, conferred upon the superintendent aforesaid.
President authorized to make alterations in the plans of the public buildings.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, in repairing the public buildings in the city of Washington, to make such alterations in the plans thereof, respectively, as he shall judge proper for the better accommodation of the two houses of Congress, the President of the United States, and the various departments of the government, or any of them.
Approved, April 29, 1816.
Statute I.
Chap. CLI.—An Act to provide for the appointment of a surveyor of the public lands in the territories of Illinois and Missouri.
Surveyor of public lands in the territories of Illinois and Missouri to be appointed—his duties.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a surveyor of the lands of the United States in the territories of Illinois and Missouri shall be appointed, whose duty it shall be to engage a sufficient number of skilful surveyors as his deputies, and to cause so much of the land above-mentioned, as the President of the United States shall direct, and to which the titles of the Indian tribes have been extinguished, to be surveyed and divided in the manner, and to do and perform all such other acts in relation to such lands, as the surveyor general is authorized and directed to do, in relation to the same, or the lands lying north-west of the river Ohio: and it shall also be the duty of the surveyor to cause to be surveyed the lands in the said territories, the claims to whichDuties. have been or hereafter may be confirmed by any act of Congress, which have not already been surveyed according to law: and generally to do and perform all and singular the duties required by law to be performed by the principal deputy surveyor for the territory of Missouri; and shall transmit to the registers of the land offices within the said territories, respectively, general and particular plats of all the lands surveyed, or to be surveyed, and shall also forward copies of said plats to the commissioner of the general land office; fix the compensation of the deputy surveyors,Proviso. chain carriers, and axemen. Provided, that the whole expense of surveying and marking the lines shall not exceed three dollars for every mile that shall be run, surveyed and marked.
His compensation, annual, and fees of office.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor of the lands of the United States, appointed in pursuance of this act, shall be allowed an annual compensation of one thousand dollars, and shall be entitled to