United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/19th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 33
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXXIII.—An Act making appropriations for the public buildings, and other objects.
Sums respectively appropriated for the public buildings, &c.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—
Capitol, Capitol square, &c.For completing the work remaining to be done on and about the Capitol, the Capitol square, and its enclosures, and for engine house, the sum of eighty-three thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars and five cents; for repairs on the Capitol, the sum of five hundred dollars; for repairs and improvements at the War and Navy Departments, the sum of one thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty-five cents; for additional fire apparatus, the sum of one thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars:Proviso. Provided, That no platform nor steps be extended from the top of the area wall to the building, nor any change, whatever, be made in the present arrangement of the room under the library.
Repairs, cases for records, &c.For repairs, cases for records, and other furniture for the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, four hundred and fifty dollars.
Completion of the penitentiary.For the completion of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia, fifteen thousand three hundred and ninety dollars.
Appropriation by an act, approved May 22, 1826, ch. 154, for finishing the large room in the President’s house, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That of the sum of money appropriated by an act of Congress, approved twenty-second May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, for finishing the large room in the President’s house, for the purchase of furniture, and the repairs of the house, six thousand dollars be expended, under the direction of the President of the United States.
Approved, March 2, 1827.