United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 35
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXXV.—An Act supplementary to “An act providing for the accommodation of the General Post-Office and Patent Office, and for other purposes.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General, under the direction of the President of the United States, be authorized Act of April 28, 1810, ch. 34.
Postmaster-General, under direction of the President, authorize to repair and finish the Great Hotel for the accommodation of the post-office department and patent office.
When these offices are to be removed.to repair and finish, in a suitable manner for the accommodation of the post-office department and the patent office, the two stories of building purchased for the government, by authority of the aforesaid act, being the first and second stories, including also sundry repairs on the outside and in the garret of said building, upon the principles stated in the report of the Postmaster-General, dated January fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the repairs can be properly made, and before the commencement of the next annual session of Congress, the general post-office and the city post-office shall be removed to said public building.
Appropriation.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the purposes of completing the aforesaid work, there be appropriated, from any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirteen thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty-one cents, including the sum of two thousand three hundred dollars, now in the treasury, and also the sum of one thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and seventy cents, now in the hands of Thomas Monroe, superintendent of the city of Washington, being unexpended balances of the sum of twenty thousand dollars, authorized by the act of April twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and ten, to which this act is a supplement.
Approved, March 7, 1812.