United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 34
Chap. XXXIV.—An Act providing for the better accommodation of the General Post-office and Patent Office, and for other purposes.
Act of July 4, 1836, ch. 357, sec. 7.
Act of March 3, 1839.
President authorized to buy or to cause to be built a house for the accommodation of the general post-office, &c
City post office, and those of superintendent and surveyor of the city to be removed.
Fire-proof rooms to be erected in the public offices west of the President’s house.
Appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and hereby is authorized to erect, or procure by purchase, a building suitable for the accommodation of the general post-office, and of the office of the keeper of the patents, in such situation, and finished in such manner, as the interest of the United States and the safety and convenience of those offices respectively, and the arrangement of the models in the patent office shall, in his opinion, require.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and hereby is authorized to cause the city post-office, and the offices of the superintendent and surveyor of the city of Washington, to be immediately removed from the public building west of the President’s house; and that he cause to be built within the said public building, as many fire-proof rooms as shall be sufficient for the convenient deposit of all the public papers and records of the United States, belonging to, or in the custody of the state, war or navy departments.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be appropriated for the purposes expressed in this act, out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 28, 1810.