United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 138
Chap. CXXXVIII.—An Act to procure a bust, in marble, of the late Chief Justice Ellsworth.
American artist to be employed to execute bust.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the joint committee of the two Houses of Congress on the library be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to contract with a suitable American artist for the execution, in marble, and delivery in the room of the Supreme Court of the United States, a bust of the late Chief Justice Ellsworth.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, eight hundred dollars; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, June 30, 1834.