Apportionment to be made, if whole amount of the adjusted claims exceed $250,000.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if, on the adjustment of the aforesaid claims, the amount which may be found due, and the amount already paid, with the interest to be calculated as aforesaid, shall exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause a fair and equitable distribution of the unexpended balance of the said two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be made among the claimants, in proportion to the amount which may have been, or shall be, found due to them, respectively:Proviso. Provided, That the principal of the respective claims shall be first paid.
Approved, June 30, 1834.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXLVI.—An Act making appropriations for the public buildings and grounds, and for other purposes.
Appropriations for the public buildings and grounds.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, that is to say:
For alterations and repairs of the Capitol, including the repairs of the roof, six thousand two hundred and ninety-two dollars.
For laying pipes for the purpose of draining the east and west reservoirs, two thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars.
For salary of the gardener employed in superintending the Capitol square, and other public grounds, one thousand dollars.
For lighting lamps, keeping the grounds and walks in order, and planting in the Capitol square, and adjacent public grounds, four thousand eight hundred and twenty-six dollars.
For alterations and repairs of the President’s house, flooring the terraces, and erecting stables, six thousand six hundred and seventy dollars.
For the gardener’s salary, and for labourers employed upon the grounds and walks at the President’s house, and for planting, two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For paving foot-ways at the north front of the President’s house, and making a gravel carriage way, thirteen thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars.
For planting trees and repairing the fence in Lafayette square, north of the President’s house, one thousand dollars.
For purchasing and planting trees and shrubs for the Pennsylvania Avenue, and the public grounds, three thousand dollars.
For keeping in repair the public fire engines, two hundred dollars.
For rebuilding the wall and constructing a culvert and drain at the burying-ground, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars.
For the actual deficiency in the appropriation made during the last year for the enclosure of the public vault and the improvement of the public burying-ground, one hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For completing the water-works at the President’s house, the executive buildings, and the Capitol, one thousand and fifty-two dollars.
For completing the furniture of the President’s house, six thousand dollars.
For excess of expenditures beyond the appropriations made by the late commissioner of the public buildings during the last year, twenty-two thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-four cents.
For erecting a monument over the remains of the late Major General Jacob Brown, one thousand dollars; the work to be done under the direction of the Secretary of War.