United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 49
Chap. XLIX.—An Act for the erection of a monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry, late Vice President of the United States.
Superintendent of the public buildings to erect a monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the superintendent of the public buildings be, and he hereby is directed to cause to be erected, in the burial ground of the city of Washington, a neat and appropriate monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry, late Vice President of the United States, who died at Washington, November twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, with a suitable inscription on the same, stating the name, station, age, and time of death, of the deceased.
Appropriation therefor.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum, not exceeding one thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the payment of the cost thereof, from any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1823.