United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 143
Chap. CXLIII.—An Act authorizing the judges of the circuit court, and the attorney for the District of Columbia, to prepare a code of jurisprudence for the said district.
Code of laws to be digested and formed for District of Columbia.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the judges of the circuit court, and the attorney for the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby authorized, to prepare and digest a code of jurisprudence, both civil and criminal, for the said district, to be hereafter submitted to the Congress of the United States, to be modified, altered or adopted, as to them shall seem proper.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid to the said judges and attorney aforesaid, as a compensation for their services in this respect, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 29, 1816.