United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 41
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XLI.—An Act making further appropriations for completing the Capitol, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the appropriations heretofore made, 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, to the purposes herein after mentioned, that is to say:
Specific appropriations.For sculpture, and warming and ventilating the chamber of the House of Representatives, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For defraying the expense of completing the court-room, and the offices of the judiciary, on the east side, completing the Senate chamber and stopping the leaks in the roof of the north wing of the Capitol, twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs to the President’s house and offices, five thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it be the duty of the superintendent of the city of Washington, prior to any farther advances of money being made, to call for all claims now due on account of materials furnished or work done in the public buildings, in order that the same may be liquidated and paid.
Sec. 3. 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, May 1, 1810.