council for the additional time employed as aforesaid, the sum of two thousand dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. LXXIII.—An Act in addition to, and in alteration of, an act entitled “An act vesting in the corporation of the city of Washington all the rights of the Washington Canal Company,” and for other purposes.
Secretary of the Treasury to pay $150,000 to city of Washington.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, unto the mayor, aldermen, and common council of the city of Washington, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to aid them in fulfilling the objects and requirements of an act entitledAct of May 31, 1832, ch. 113. “An act vesting in the corporation of the city of Washington all the rights of the Washington Canal Company, and for other purposes;” approved May thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two:Proviso. Provided, That the said mayor, aldermen, and common council, relinquish all title to the land vested in them by the eighth section of the act above named, and, also, relinquish all rights and privileges granted by the eighth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth sections of said act:Proviso. And provided, also, That the sum herein granted shall be applied to pay and extinguish any debt which has been, or may be contracted in the purchase either of the Washington City Canal, or in the completion of the same, and shall not be applicable to any other object or purpose until said debts be extinguished.
Public walks to be enclosed and improved.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner of the public buildings is hereby authorized to cause all the open grounds belonging to the United States which, in the original plan of the city, were reserved for public walks, lying between the Maryland and Pennsylvania Avenues, to be enclosed with a wooden fence, and to lay down the same, according to such plan for the improvement thereof as the President of the United States may approve, in grass, and intersect it by suitable paths and roads for intercourse and recreation:Proviso. Provided, That there shall not be more than three streets or roads across the same to connect the streets on the north and south sides of said public grounds.
Appropriation.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for the purposes of the second section of this act, the sum of five thousand dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. LXXIV.—An Act establishing a port of delivery and entry at the village of Fall River in Massachusetts, and discontinuing the office at Dighton.
Port to be established.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall, from and after the first day of April next, be established in the village of Fall River, near the mouth of Taunton Great river, in Massachusetts, a port of entry and delivery.
Office discontinued.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the office of the collection of the customs in Dighton, Massachusetts, shall, from and after the first day of April next, be discontinued.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
