United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 154
Chap. CLIV.—An Act making appropriations for the public buildings in Washington, and for other purposes.
Sums respectively appropriated for the following purposes:Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated, to be paid out of any money in [the] treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes; that is to say:
For the President’s house, for the purchase of furniture, &c.For finishing the large room in the President’s house; for the purchase of furniture, and for repairs of the house, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars; for finishing the fences, and graduating and improving the grounds connected with the President’s house, the sum of five thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars; for continuing the work on the Capitol, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars; for repair of hose for fire engine, the sum of three hundred dollars; for the widow of Giovanni Andrei, four hundred dollars, to defray the expenses of her return to Italy.
All furniture to be of American manufacture.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all furniture purchased for the use of the President’s house, shall be, as far as practicable, of American or domestic manufacture.
Commissioner of public buildings hereafter to receive a salary of 2000 dollars.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner of [the] public buildings shall hereafter receive the sum of two thousand dollars per annum as his salary, to be paid to him as other salaries are paid, and any law heretofore authorizing him to employ a clerk in his office shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, May 22, 1826.