United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 70
Chap. LXX.—An Act making appropriation for the public buildings, and for other purposes.
Appropriation for penitentiary.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of completing the buildings of the penitentiary, its support, the purchase of raw materials to be manufactured by the convicts, and as compensation to Thomas Carberry, who is hereby allowed one thousand dollars for his services in planning and superintending the erection of the penitentiary, the sum of fifteen thousand four hundred and thirty-six dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Appropriations for Capitol, President’s house, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and hereby are appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes, that is to say:
For dressing and laying the stone, procured for paving the terrace of the Capitol, seven thousand dollars.
For enclosing and improving the public ground north of the Capitol, two thousand dollars.
For a pedestal wall, coping, railing, and foot way at the north front of the President’s house, ten thousand dollars. For improving the Capitol square, including the gardener’s salary, and lighting the lamps, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For completing the regulation of the ground and planting, south of the President’s house, four thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
For alterations and repairs in the Capitol, one thousand dollars.
For alterations and repairs in the President’s house, five hundred dollars.
For constructing reservoirs and fountains at the public offices, and President’s house, and enclosing and planting the fountain square, six thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars.
For keeping in repair the fire engines belonging to the public buildings, two hundred dollars.
For furnishing the President’s house, to be expended under the direction of the President, in addition to the proceeds of such decayed furniture, as he may direct to be sold, twenty thousand dollars.
For an additional pavement for the statue of Washington, five thousand dollars.
For alterations in the Representatives Hall, to accommodate the twenty-third Congress, according to a plan recommended by a select committee of the House of Representatives, of thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, thirteen thousand dollars.
For completing the public vault, and railing thereon, one thousand six hundred dollars.
Approved, March 2, 1833.