United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 226
Chap. CCXXVI.—An Act to provide for the erection of a new jail in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,New jail to be erected. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause a new jail to be erected for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on such site as he may select; and that, for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, the sum of thirty-one thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided always, That the said jail shall be built by contract, under the superintendence of the architect of public buildings, and that the cost shall in no event exceed the said sum of thirty-one thousand dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1839.