Chapter XLI. to provide for furnishing the house of the President of the United States
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Chap. XLI.— An Act to provide for furnishing the house of the President of the United States.March 3, 1817. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Decayed furniture to be sold, and the proceeds and 20,000 dolls. additional appropriated for furnishing the President’s house anew. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That after the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered, to cause to be sold such articles furnished by the United States for the President’s household, as may be decayed, out of repair, or unfit for use; and that the proceeds of sales, and so much of a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, in addition thereto, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, as the President of the United States may judge necessary, be, and hereby are, appropriated for the accommodation of 363FOURTEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 42, 43, 44. 1817. the household of the President, to be laid out and expended for such articles of furniture as he shall direct. Approved, March 3, 1817.