United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 96
Chap. XCVI.—An Act authorizing the purchase of fire engines and for building houses for the same keeping of the same.
The President to cause two fire engines to be purchased, with suction pipes and hose, &c., for protecting buildings in Washington.
Engine houses to be built, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and requested to cause to be purchased two fire engines, of the first class, with proper suction pipes, and six hundred feet of rivet leathern hose, for the purpose of protecting the public and other buildings in the city of Washington from fire.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States cause to be built two good and sufficient houses, for the safe keeping of the said engines; one to be located on the Capitol hill near the Capitol, and one near the President’s house and public offices.
4500 dollars appropriated.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for defraying the expenses of the same, the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury.
Approved, March 3, 1819.