Chapter XLIX. for the erection of a monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry, late Vice President of the United States
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Chap. XLIX.— An Act for the erection of a monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry, late Vice President of the United States. March 3, 1823. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Superintendent of the public buildings to erect a monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry. That the superintendent of the public buildings be, and he hereby is directed to cause to be erected, in the burial ground of the city of Washington, a neat and appropriate monument over the tomb of Elbridge Gerry, late Vice President of the United States, who died at Washington, November twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, with a suitable inscription on the same, stating the name, station, age, and time of death, of the deceased.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That a sum, not exceeding oneAppropriation therefor. thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the payment of the cost thereof, from any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, March 3, 1823.