United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 133

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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 3
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Sixteenth Congress, 1st Session, Chapter 133
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May 15, 1820.

Chap. CXXXIII.An Act to provide for repairing the roof of the general post-office, and to procure an engine for the protection of said building.

The Postmaster General to cause the roof of the building to be repaired and slated, and to procure a fire engine.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be, and he hereby is, directed to cause the roof of the general post-office to be repaired and covered with slate; and also to procure and keep, for the protection of said building, an engine and apparatus for extinguishing fire, and to cause to be built a suitable house for the safe keeping of such engine.

6020 dollars, appropriated for the objects, out of postages.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be, and there is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of the moneys arising from the postage of letters and packets, such sum as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding six thousand and twenty dollars.

Approved, May 15, 1820.