United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 82

2630805United States Statutes at Large, Volume 3 — Public Acts of the Fifteenth Congress, 1st Session, Chapter 82United States Congress


April 20, 1818.
Chap. LXXXII.—An Act to provide for erecting additional buildings for the accommodation of the several Executive Departments.

Buildings for executive departments under direction of the President.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of the public buildings cause to be erected, under the direction of the President of the United States, two buildings, suitable for offices for the executive departments, to be placed north of the buildings at present occupied by those departments, and on a line parallel therewith; each of said new buildings to contain forty rooms of convenient size.

Appropriation under the direction of the President.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, the sum of one hundred and eighty thousand seven hundred and forty-one dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States.

Approved, April 20, 1818.