PUBLIC ACTS OF THE THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 1st day of December, 1851, and ended Tuesday, the 31st day of August, 1852.
MILLARD FILLMORE President; WILLIAM R. KING, President of the Senate; LINN BOYD, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHAP. I.--An Act making Appropriation to meet the Expenses incurred in consequence of the late Fire at the Capitol Jan. 13, 1852.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended, or so much thereof as may be necessary, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, in discharge of the expenses incurred in the extinguishment of the late fire in the Library Room, the removal of the rubbish, and the preservation of such books and other articles as may have been saved, and the construction of a tin roof for the preservation and protection of that portion of the building now exposed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of ten thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated for the purchase of books for the Library of Congress, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library. Approved, January 13, 1852.
CHAP. II.—An Act to provide a Room for the Congressional Library. Jan. 23, 1852
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of twelve hundred dollars be hereby appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, for the purpose my of fitting up the document room and a portion of the adjoining passage to receive temporarily a portion of the books of the Congressional Library.
Approved, January 23, 1852.
CHAP. V.-—An Act authorizing the payment of Interest to the State of New Hampshire for Advances made for the use and benefit of the United States in repelling Invasion and suppressing Insurrection, at Indian Stream, in said State.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second Auditor of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized and direct-
