United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 18
Chap. XVIII.—An Act to provide for placing Greenough’s Statue of Washington in the Rotundo of the Capitol, and for expenses therein mentioned.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Accounts of H. Greenough, to be settled, how. That the accounts of Horatio Greenough for expenses incurred in the execution of the pedestrian statue of Washington, authorized by a resolution of Congress, February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the accounts and charges for freight of the same to the United States, be settled under the direction of the Secretary of State, according to the rights of the claimants under their several contracts liberally construed:Proviso. Provided, That not more than six thousand five hundred dollars shall be allowed the said Greenough in the event that the Secretary of State, under such construction as aforesaid, shall consider him entitled to charge the same; and not more than eight thousand six hundred dollars for the freight aforesaid, and detention of the ship, and for an iron railing around the statue, including the sum of fifteen hundred dollars assumed to be paid by the said Greenough in addition to the original contract as made by Commodore Hull; and the sum of fifteen thousand one hundred dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purposes aforesaid.
Appropriation for erecting the statue.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of removing the said statue from the navy yard at Washington, and for erecting the same in such part of the Rotundo of the Capitol, as may be deemed best adapted for the same by the Secretary of the Navy, in accordance with the joint resolution of Congress of the twenty-seventh of May, eighteen hundred and forty, any thing designating a particular spot contained in the act of fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, September 9, 1841.