United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 32
Chap. XXXII.—An Act for the further improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Commissioner authorized to alter plan.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of the public buildings be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to alter the plan for the improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue, as provided for by an act passed the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, by causing that portion of the avenue lying between the road directed to be Macadamized and the side pavements, to be graduated and covered with stone, on the Macadam’s plan, in place of gravel, provided for by said act; also by extending the foot pavements not less than five and a half feet on each side, and forming side drains, not less than four and a half feet wide; and further, by setting a line of curbs of granite, eight inches thick, on each side of that part of the avenue between the Capitol square and the President’s square, with suitable returns at the cross streets, and Macadamizing the cross streets fifty feet on each side of the Macadamized cover of the avenue.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, to carry into effect the provisions of this act, the sum of sixty-nine thousand six hundred and thirty dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, February 19, 1833.